Pencil Modding and repair

[Toby Ireland]

Hi all... i have another post on my damaged motherboard, where they suggested i pencil mod the brocken gold tracks on the underside of my motherboard... 6 broken tracks near my northbridge chipset... so does anyone know exactly what i should do to repair it..?(preferably pencil modding) thanks muchly...

 

[ktr]

you didnt have to make another thread....

you have two options;

a) pencil mod - when you take a conductive material and basically draw new leads...

b) soldier wires jumping between the broken leads.

 

[Toby Ireland]

thankyou greatly, but i couldn't solve it that way... however seem the motherboard lives on with no signs of damage, other than the appearance of the scratches... the ASUS LIVES ON!

 

[Munkul]

how about taking some pictures and posting them up? maybe someone can tell you what those traces were supposed to do.

 

[Toby Ireland]

Thats a good idea, shame I didn't think of that before i re-assembled my computer for a second time, but it's probably worth knowing, so here i go for a third complete dissasembly...(taking out all cards, all IDE belts, all power leads and one poorly fitting hard drive...)

 

[lemonadesoda]

If you REALLY have a damaged mainboard with broken tracks, then I suggest you replace the mainboard. You cannot fix the tracks that are not visible (the PCB has 8 layers!). It just isnt worth the possible risks of untimely unpredictable failure, or other unknown problems, due to a faulty mainboard.

EVERYTHING hangs off the mainboard. If there#s only one things you need 100%, is the mainboard.

FOR VERY CHEAP MONEY you can get a much better mainboard that will take ALL your stuff, and will allow overclocking. http://www.asrock.com/product/P4i65G.htm

ASROCK is a discount offshoot of ASUS. This particular mainboard is the replacement for ASUS P4P800-VM which was the BIG BROTHER to the mainboard you are currently using. I've used both and can recommend them. I even have some spares.