Repairing Motherboard Trace Damage

[BucNastyHater]

Its a long story, but im just wondering if anyone knows how to repair trace damage on a motherboard, or if it can even be done.

[Easybeat]

I have never tried to repair a mobo but I have used silver conductive paint to repair other circuits.

A small bottle can usually be picked up for say £6-10, although I should imagine mobo traces would require one heck of a steady hand.

[BucNastyHater]

Yeah I can only imagine lol. The board is an Asus P5N32-SLI Deluxe btw if anyone has any experience.

[Zucker2k]

I have never tried to repair a mobo but I have used silver conductive paint to repair other circuits.

A small bottle can usually be picked up for say £6-10, although I should imagine mobo traces would require one heck of a steady hand.

What he said; done it - essentially, electrical tape and conductive silver pen.

[celemine1Gig]

Uhm, you did realize, that the traces are not the only problem that you are facing, right?

[Mescalamba]

Chip on left is broken..

[BucNastyHater]

Yes I realize that also. Is that also repairable?

[ReverendMaynard]

That looks like a washer/nut was torked onto there super tight. You'll have to scrape the lacquer and letter paint off to expose the trace wires because slapping conductive pen on them as is, will accomplish nothing.

then you have the broken chip, APM2014N which is an N-channel enhancement mode MOSFET and without it, your board is useless or it will eat your ram.

[celemine1Gig]

The resistor under the IDE/Floppy(?) slot doesn't look good, too, and I don't know if the solder pads right above the mosfet really used to be empty.
And BTW, forget conductive silver lacquer. It's not really permanent and those traces are far too thin to get a decent replacement by using the lacquer. First you should check if the traces are really cut. If they are only scratched, carefully retinning them might suffice.

[BucNastyHater]

Does anyone think its worth repairing to sell or should I just sell it to an expert for them to fix.

[mk-ultra]

it's a P5N32-SLI dude, i don't know how you could justify spending money to get an old mobo repaired...but that's just me

[Retro]

I'd give it to the first guy to offer anything for it, even if it was only five bucks.
If you have to write it off, life goes on.
As mk-ultra said, it's an old board. Not worth the trouble!

[the9093]

fix it just for yourself. give it a new name and sell it for twice its worth now.

[EvoCarlos]

i did some track repairs to a dfi lan-p a while back its still untested but the tracks are fix'd and connected (mm tested)
this track has gone

fix'd image here
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...p/DSC02811.jpg

i had to wet and dry the lacquer from the mobo then tin with solder and use a single strand from a 16core wire and just rejoined the tracks

carl..

[MrBean]

If you can get the mosfet (get an old, broken board and use that as a donor), that problem is easily and cheaply rectified - as long as traces on the intermediate layers aren't damaged........

[celemine1Gig]

i did some track repairs to a dfi lan-p a while back its still untested but the tracks are fix'd and connected (mm tested)
this track has gone
[/IMG]http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k262/evocarlos/water%20cooled/dfi%20lanp/Image142.jpg[/IMG]
fix'd image here
http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k2...p/DSC02811.jpg

i had to wet and dry the lacquer from the mobo then tin with solder and use a single strand from a 16core wire and just rejoined the tracks

carl..

Nice job. That is exactly how it should be done.

[cheungtsw]

This thread reminds me how the distributor fixed my old epox MB.

I had a 9700NT which chose to self-destruct and killed/burned the AGP slot.
The HK distributor used thin stripe of metal and soldering to fix it.