Need Help.......magic install gone badd

[KaptinKABOOM]

Well I am currently installing a magic 3.1 chip and evreything was going smothey untill 2 wires came loose.... The C, and D points.

While trying to fix the D point I accedently made s horted connection between the D and C legs... THEN when trying to repair this misake with a razor blade I Ruined the conduit to the C point..... Good lord this sucks.....so I guess I am askng does anyone have a solution on how to fix this?

Pictures are included below.. they arn't so hot tho using an old school Digital camera... Gives you an idea of where the points are.

I am afraid to use desoldering braid on it becuase I didn;t wanna heat up the chip too much..... so What is the best way to get the legs appart and since I ruined that conduit amn I screwed?

[KaptinKABOOM]

oh yeah its a Version 4 with a gaped bios ... ( I figure the gapped bios dosent mattermuuch but hell I figured I would tell ya anyway

[KaptinKABOOM]

seperated the DVD legs....i need to know if the conduit Is needed tho becuase I could use thelat d point and go stright to the leg with the C point...... Anyone know?

[Rigz]

First test the c and d pins on the chip with a multimeter in resistance mode(or some other continuity test) to see if you still have a solder bridge. I'm not sure what you mean by conduit(I included a picture)... but if you are talking about the track that goes from the c pin to the c point test those two points with a multimeter to make sure there is still a connection between the two. If you are talking about the via hole(the c point) test the continuity once again this time between the c pin and a point on the other side of the board where the via goes to. If the track or via are damaged you might be able to use an additional wire to repair the install.

About over heating your chip by using desolder braid.. be careful. I've done a perfect looking installs on a v7 with a magic 3 but I somehow had overheated the dvd/cd controller chip. This was with a 30watt solder iron. I then decided to get a 15watt solder gun with static protection. I used this to install a dms3 v2.0 chip on a v8 board. This time though I kept bridging bios points. I used desolder braid and cleaned it up perfectly and the chip works perfectly too. It takes like a second for the desolder braid to pick up the solder.

[Rigz]

heres a picture of what I'm thinking you mean by conduit. I've only heard the word conduit used as some sort of hollow tube used to run wires

[KaptinKABOOM]

Yeah The track running to the C point.. heh I guess I had the wrong name for it Anyway Yeah its cut I can SEE how its cut too...it suck ..Yeah I did test the legs with a multimeter already and I got rid of the bridge

Anyway What is the best way to repair the track? are conductive pens small enough to get it? I could go buy one I guess.

[Rigz]

solder a small wire from the c pin to the c point(the via). I've never used a conductive pen so I don't know.

[KaptinKABOOM]

Couldn't I just solder the wire to the C pin? just aviod the Via point totally ? or is that Bad?


should I repair the track becuase its needed
anyway?

[KaptinKABOOM]

Couldn't I just solder the wire to the C pin? just aviod the Via point totally ? or is that Bad?


should I repair the track becuase its needed
anyway?

[Rigz]

yeah you can do that but having the track broken will cause the ps2 not to work. The dvd/cd controller sends/recieves signals. If a track is broken it breaks the circuit and no signal will be sent or recieved from that c pin. So to repair the cut track you need to solder a wire from the c pin to the via(the normal c point). You can solder the c wire from the magic 3 to either the via or the c pin. You can find alternative points for any of the normal install points if you just follow the tracks on the mainboard. The install diagrams are made with the easiest/closest points chosen. The reason it doesn't have the c point marked on the pin is because it is the pin next to the d pin and so has a big chance of having a solder bridge.