I've got a socket 370 PIII chipset that had one of the pin separate.
Anyone here had experience in re-attaching these.
The break is clean( the copper trace on the chipset itself is visible
and exposed.) and the pin has a bit of the board resin on the tip so
it should be possible to re-attach it.
Just concerned about applying a solder tip to the chip itself.(I do
have a range of irons, from 20 watts up to 150.)
Or is there a cement that could be used?
Oddly enough the chip seemed to work when it was swapped out to
another tower though I didn't run any heavy load on the system to
checck it out.(Booted up just fine with bios correctly identifying the
chip with no beeps or hangs.)
If it's not advisible to try soldering I suppose it might work to
manually drop the pin in the correct hole in the socket and put the
chipset with enough pressure to make contact and lock it in place with
ziff latching lever.
Any advice is greatly appreciated.