Soldering

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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"?

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?

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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