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    Question Replacing a fried motherboard component via microsoldering ?

    Thanks for the welcome! I'll most likely end up picking up a new board since this isn't high quality or anything. Just seems like a bit of a shame to throw it away, since I've already got some of the gear for micro soldering, I'd like to try my hand at saving it.
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    Question Replacing a fried motherboard component via microsoldering ?

    I was messing around with the RGB header on my Gigabyte B550M DS3H motherboard but forgot to power the system down (stupid I know). When I plugged in the 4 pin RGB cable into the "LED_CPU" header, magic smoke came out of the surrounding circuitry and absolutely fried this component. I'm...