20 Oct
1999
20 Oct
'99
2:48 a.m.
Thats just where they broke! I used one of my
wife's
sewing needles to pry them out of the sockets.
I soldered a little piece of wire to the top of each one
and then pulled them out.
And it's most likely they broke when I removed the
chips
from the sockets, but I'm not sure about that.
Well, the first exercise I perform when working with a
new (well, new to me) board is the "thumb push". Pushing
each socketed ship down into it's socket with one thumb.
When that didn't help, I went around the board and gently
lifted (with a small screwdriver) and pushed each chip.
I noticed the first broken pin after I had done about three
quarters of the board. Went back and checked the chips I
had already re-seated and found another broken pin. Found
the third broken pin as I did the rest of the board. When
these components were replaced, the board started working.
It is possible that my activities broke the pins and that
the original problem with the board was poor contacts in the
sockets, but I was being extra-gentle when I found the third
broken pin.
Bill