I'll try my hardest.
I sent a photo of the damage to the seller and he says thats anther board I'm trying to replace with the one he sold me. What a scummball

anyway a few solder pads came off and there is one bad cap, looks like a few smd resistors are missing too.

The pads will be a pain as the traces are gone and there in between layers of the board.
But hay, the corrosion is gone now!

I wish I had the skills to repair boards at a low level. Best, I can do realistically is replace caps.

Practice helps a lot. Buy dead boards and keep trying, that's how I learned.
The only thing I have trouble with is missing solder pads. Smd restores are a pain too, but that's only because I don't have solder tweezers

Putting this on the back burner for now. Until I come up with a way to fix the missing traces and pads. The traced go between the psb layers. Yeah fun!

Rhuwyn wrote:

I wish I had the skills to repair boards at a low level. Best, I can do realistically is replace caps.

I can't even do that. But I can't repair a bike either, I have 2 left hands 😢

Tetrium wrote:

Rhuwyn wrote:

I wish I had the skills to repair boards at a low level. Best, I can do realistically is replace caps.

I can't even do that. But I can't repair a bike either, I have 2 left hands 😢

Don't worry, I was the same. It got better after I trained my patience skills (see).
Simply don't rush things. Do little steps after each others and don't forget to make breaks at times.
Do repairs when you're relaxed and have a free mind, like during nightime. Sometimes a failure is also because of bad tools..
More than often I was dissapointed to not be able to do what others have accomplished.
Until I found out these guys and girls had their own lab and an exquisite set of equipment. So don't let yourself be gettin' down.
Rather keep in mind that people on the web often tell stories about their success, but rarely their own failures. That's human, after all.

I can't begin to even reminder how many times I rushed something and made a mistake.
Taking your time is vital.

I think I'll find were ever the trace goes to and from and get the cap back on the board. I think there is a spot on the back of the board I can solder it too. It's still on the back burner, I want to get my neo-geo fixed and I don't have ram or cpu's for this system yet.