Soldering

Forum discussion tagged with Soldering.
  1. Gumla44

    Question Chance of being able to solder B760M Motherboard CPU Connector pin (see pictures)

    Hello, I have B760M DS3H with some bent CPU connector pins and 2 pins that have the gold tip missing. Do you think there is a chance to solder back onto these metals the tip? what is it made of - I think copper with gold coating , right? And what tools exactly would I need to be able to do...
  2. wilko2023

    Question Corsair K95 Platinum - Water damaged, I've replaced switches but not sure what else to do?

    I spilt a bit of water on my keyboard a few months ago. It worked fine at the time, next day several keys were dead - F6, 6, Y, H and B - all in a line. I dried it out and months later there's no improvement. I didn't notice any damage at the time, but I thought I'd try swapping in some new...
  3. mdifonzo1301

    Question Converting a headset that uses USB dongle to Bluetooth?

    Hi, it's exactly as the title says. I have some pairs of wireless headphones and gaming headsets that use sort of a proprietary USB dongle receiver to plug into only one specific singular console. I do not own that USB dongle, because these were purchased with it being unknowly needed. The...
  4. mcyy

    Question I have ripped the fan port off my gpu, can i fix it ?

    Hello everyone, first post here. I was cleaning my PC to remove dust etc. When it came time to change the thermal paste on my GPU, which is an xfx Radeon 590 Fatboy, I removed the screw and proceeded normally. After everything was put back together I noticed my GPU fans weren't working (graphics...
  5. m1tkeee

    Question CPU missing pad?!

    Does anyone knows if this is fixable? I still have the pad of solder but i dont know if i m able to scrape a tiny bit of surface on the CPU to be able to see the copper and then solder that pad to it. Any help would be appreciated. Here is the image: View: https://imgur.com/a/QNQ7n56
  6. Endstarky

    Question Front panel Audio not working properly.

    Guys this is my front panel audio module with usbs, the problem is mainly with my audio Jacks where I need to put my headphones plug into it and pressure in various sides to make it work and sometimes keep pressurising and sometimes the connection won't even come properly, by now it's mainly a...
  7. V

    Question Old laptop NB Chipset upgrade ?

    Hello, I've got an old laptop. It's Toshiba Satellite L450-18P. I managed to upgrade the CPU (It's not BGA) from Intel Pentium Dual Core T4400 @2.20 Ghz w FSB 800MHZ to Intel Core 2 Duo T8300 2.40 Ghz with the same fsb and higher L2 Cache. My mobo chipset is Intel GL40, some other laptop...
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    Question Does this processor look burnt ?

    A friend of mine gave me a Dell Inspiron P91G001 laptop for free as suddenly the computer would not output to either the screen or HDMI, and the keys would light up for about 5 seconds before the computer would shut down. There are no led flashes showing on the charging port. When I opened it...
  9. Andy333

    Question IBM Eduquest 45 - AIO internal CRT monitor to new motherboard?

    Hi there! Any help or assistance with soldering or finding a correct plug to fit an IBM Lenovo motherboard would be great. I do have photos. I don't know how to find out what type of connector the All-in-One CRT monitor power cable is called, it was manufactured in 1994. My plan is to reuse...
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    [SOLVED] Heatsink Soldering

    I decimated a screw holding my laptop heatsink down and need to cut off a small steel joint between the heatsink and stripped screw to remove the heatsink. It is held down by 3 other similar screws. Would it be safe to leave the cut-off screw disconnected from the heatsink? If I tried to solder...
  11. C

    [SOLVED] Converting Laptop Camera to USB

    I have a camera from a fried laptop that was connected by this connection: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gxOjffA7Y50loVuIUNgfOgtwLJucCAV_/view?usp=drivesdk I clipped off the opposite end of the wire, and this is inside...
  12. T

    [SOLVED] Resolder display port?

    Good evening everyone!~~~ Recently a friend of mine was using my computer and he tried to unplug the display port cable from my 1080 ti, unfortunately he is not tech-savy and he told me he pulled on it as hard as he could (he didn't know there's a clip on display port cables >:/) and the clip...
  13. Bradox45

    [SOLVED] Soldering help with Steelseries Arctis Pro

    I broke my right cup of my headset i need to solder it up asap! Does anyone know where to solder the wires or how i can find out? I tried searching for images on google but i didn’t get any luck (Description of where the wire goes, is at the source of the images)
  14. D

    Headphone cord repair

    I purchased some Sennheiser HD650 headphones a while ago and accidentally broke the tip off my 3.5mm phone connector jack. Now normally this would be a pretty easy fix, just snip and re-wire but the problem is the cable is double-lead or whatever it is called. Basically it is two cords that are...
  15. Jyro10

    [SOLVED] Can I remove a switch from my mechanical keyboard and use it somewhere else?

    So, I have a cheapo Cherry MX copy mechanical keyboard, with plate mounted switches, and my spacebar is failing most of the time I try to use it. It happened before, the same thing, but I solved it by just removing the keycap and putting some isopropanol and mashing the key, and that fixed it...
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    Question MSI 870A-G54 and the SB850

    Salute More than a year ago I moved my PC's case and then it turned off. Later I remeber it booted once again and finnaly turned off. Since that happened it haven't booted properly just gives power to fans and leds no beep code signals, no response. I deconstructed the whole system and...
  17. Senbonzakura_miku

    [SOLVED] Mouse not recognized after soldering

    I had opened and took apart my mouse several times but this last time the wires disconnected from the board. So i soldered them. But after connecting it, windows pops up the error: "USB Device not recognized" . the red led on the mouse lights on, even dims after 5 seconds (like other mouses). Of...
  18. A

    [SOLVED] GTX 1080 Ti fans screen cuts out fans 100% black screen

    Hi guys I'm at my wits end I'm hoping you clever people can help me I have a Nvidia GTX 1080 ti which has a fault. Happily using the card every other day for the past year light gaming no issues. Then I had a problem of the display cutting out and the fans going to 100% I've I've tried fresh...
  19. P

    Looking for the right pin to solder

    Hello first thread here, i don't know if i choose the correct topic but i didn't find any for soldering, im a noob at soldering and i was looking at a video on how to charge a passive adapter to make it active because of my ps4 and I don't want to spend anymore money on adapters. Let me explain...
  20. Penrose

    Question How strong is the soldering on a GPU?

    So I was doing some cable management on my PC and had one of those thin bendable metal wires wrapped in plastic that you use to tie around cables, and I the wire got caught on one of the small chip looking things that are soldered to the GPU card and I may have poked it a little bit, I'm worried...
  21. Naipross

    Question bluetooth "board" thingy to aux

    so I got a cheap knock off airpods for christmas and the sound was terrible and they were just overall terrible so I opened one up and took everything out of it and this is how it looks, can I connect the white and blue wires to a female aux cable and make any wired audio device "wireless"?
  22. O

    I am trying to build a pc so I want to make sure that the motherboard goes into the computer case

    Can MSI Gaming Intel Skylake H110 LGA 1151 DDR4 USB 3.1 Micro ATX Motherboard (H110M Gaming) Mother Board fit this Azza SIRIUS CSAZ-206S Mid Tower Computer Case, Black?
  23. B

    Fractal Design Define S Fans

    Hey everyone, I bought a Fractal Design Define S windowed case and I am in the process of selecting fans. The case comes with two 140 mm fans, which I am going to use for exhaust at the rear and top. I wanted to add three 140 mm intake fans to the front, but I am unsure if it will fit. If not...
  24. J

    overclocking a good idea

    Is overclocking a good idea on these boards. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA1N85771177&cm_re=Gigabyte_z270-_-13-128-972-_-Product https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813132935&cm_re=asus_z270_tuf-_-13-132-935-_-Product going to be using a 6600k
  25. B

    3 monitors on my one gpu or buy a cheap one for the third one?

    I have an R9 270x coupled with a FX-6300. I currently have 2 monitors connected with my R9 270x, one in DVI and one in HDMI. I was wondering if I should buy a cheap, $30 gpu and hook it up with my new monitor. The new one won't being doing much, just having a chat client and Google Music open...
  26. M

    Possible Defective CPU

    Just recent put together a computer and can't get it to post. Wasn't getting any beeps out of the speaker so I removed the ram to see if it would, sure enough it did give me the code for the missing ram. Removed the GPU and I got 5 beeps (short process error) but I know you will get that if your...
  27. S

    3 blinking amber led lights

    Hello all, I bought a new Fujitsu T901 Lifebook in 2012 and it has performed superbly for the last 4 years. Over this weekend, I tried to boot it and nothing happened; three blinking amber led's blink simultaneously but no power to the fan or HD. I tried the trick that is often posted here...
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    i7 6700k Performance (Gaming while recording via Bandicam or fraps)

    Hello everyone, (GPU- GTX 780 TI OC Windforce Edtion - 32 GB 3000mhz ram - SSD: Samsung 850 Evo Pro) I want to know how I7 6700k performs when gaming on max settings while recording the game using Bandicam or fraps or similar app. Will it lag while recording the game? I heard from someone that...
  29. S

    VGA to HDMI. Will it fix the horizontal lines?

    I have a Radeon HD 7850 2GB OC and I have an issue with horizontal lines appearing (not screen tearing) when gaming (cable is VGA converted to DVI). V-Sync and OpenGL Triple Buffering has already been turned on always but its not going away. I tried the GPU with another monitor with the same...
  30. T

    I only have one option, 2.1 on realtek audio manager. how can I have a surround option like 5.1? please help me!

    I only have one option, 2.1 on realtek audio manager. how can I have a surround option like 5.1? please help me!
  31. A

    Clean reinstall, no back up no drivers pleade help

    I bought this pc used it worked good but crashed sometimes. It became super suprr slow after i set the bios to default. It came over clocked, Please help i cannot even find drivers https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/sys/5078535609.html
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    High pings over wifi on both 5Ghz and 2.4 Ghz on two different routers

    The obvious explanation would be interference. But I'm not getting any sign of unstable signal on my software wifi analyser and I can only see one other 5Ghz network which is on a different channel. I realise that doesn't necessarily mean interference isn't adding errors but the only way I could...
  33. B

    should i get a ssd over a hdd?

    what would be the reasons to move to a ssd? i always see people saying you need a ssd + 1TB+ hdd but why? a ssd cant copy files to a hdd faster than a hdd to hdd right? load times on games are supposed to be snappy but the only games i play are d3 and sc2 and thats just load times it doesnt...
  34. Larrytf

    Best gaming monitor for 100 - 200$

    what is the best gaming Monitor between $100-200 Dollars. If there is one at 120Hz please list it.
  35. A

    i have msi ms-7352 motherboard. if it is support ddr3 graphic card.

    i have msi ms-7352 motherboard. if it is support ddr3 graphic card.
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    How do I properly update audio, SATA, chipset drivers etc. over pre-existing ones?

    I recently built my computer near the end of June with the most up to date drivers at the time. My motherboard is the Asus Maximus VII HERO, running Windows 8.1 on an SSD. At the motherboard download page, there is new drivers for the realtek audio, chipset software installation utility...
  37. O

    TITAN Black Edition or 780ti?

    Hey, I'm trying to figure out which one of these Video Cards I should Purchase. Either one would complete my PC and My PC will bill super powerful after this has been done. People say say the new TITAN Black is a 1500$ card. The EVGA GTX 780ti factory OCed to 1006MHz, and has a boost clock of...
  38. Astrosonu Higgs

    Knowing the power supply

    I want to know the power supply of my computer so how do i do that?