Are those spaghetti on the PCB??

Kidding aside on the german amoretro board someone reviewed the Waveblaster:

http://www.amoretro.de/2014/01/creative-waveb … rboard-4mb.html

Maybe you can contact him for help.

Traces are not damaged I think. Only crystal, 2 capacitors and rom - which is the hardest part of this job. Probably the only way will be find the second board and dump it.

Did you try reading out the ROM chips anyway? Maybe you can salvage at least the left. And the right can't be destroyed any further anyway.

Probably one wire inside is broken. I have to desoloder it and try to dump but I hoped that these ROMs are already dumped by somoene 😀

You also have to replace the Wavetable Adapter.

Please desolder CT1900-U7 and read out the chip and provide the mD5 checksum or the checksum of the software from the flash rom programmer.
As I have a CT1900 I can help you to replace The U7 ROM.

By the way, I helped to repair a different soundcard previously: Orchid SoundWave 32 restoration

If you very carefully unshort the bond wires the EPROM should be usable still, I don't think I can see any broken wires on it.

Thanks. Soon I will desolder ROM.
Currently I desolder damaged components from the CT1740 but the worst job will be fix broken traces at the bottom layer.

What happened to those cards? Did someone run them over with a car?

Yes, Forklift' driver touched a bag where inside were these cards. After his work the seller wanted to send me them. Initially, I thought that it is a joke or someone would pay more for them.

I tried to desolder U7 rom using gun with electric pump but legs were very loose, shell also was broken and couldn't pull out it in one piece.
I thought that the second chip will be untouched but it was also broken (and circuit inside).

So @moturimi1 if you can dump them then please. I am not hurry with that.

I cannot send PMs so please moturimi1 let me know (if you read this)