[COLUG] Need soldering help: Friday Lunch

[Judd Montgomery]

On 02/16/2008 07:31 PM, jep200404 wrote:
> 
> Bring the motherboard in an anti-static bag to Friday lunch. 
> I'll bring my tools. 
> Too bad you didn't bring it to the last meeting. 
> 
Where is lunch?

I was able to get inside the jack and bend the connectors back into 
place and now it works fine.  I had tried that once before with it 
together with no luck.

I have another problem though, which is mostly the reason I took the 
thing apart.  I let someone borrow it last weekend and they transported 
it with a PC card inserted.  The pc card must have gotten shoved into 
the laptop and the pc card riser slot on the MB is broken.  I can press 
it back into position and get the PC card to work until I let go.  It 
looks like a surface mount.  There's maybe 80 pins and they are really 
small.  Is this fixable, or worth fixing?

> If that doesn't fix it, consider getting the connector from 
> a dead laptop. The FreeGeek folks might be able to help you 
> there. Some of the show up for lunch. 
> 

Thanks, I'll see if they have a dead Dell MB.

Judd