Removing Expansion Port

Trampoline · Post by **Trampoline** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:19 pm

Hello all,
I am just curious what some of your tips and tricks are to removing this piece of equipment. Yes, I know, this is a very dumb question to ask but I am having trouble removing it. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
-Jesse

Post by **gannon** » Fri Jul 14, 2006 9:54 pm

Pliers to pull it off and then cutting/breaking all the pins off works. Although using a desoldering iron would be safer.

gamecube6 · Post by **gamecube6** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:49 am

i suggest ben's book, it tells you that stuff...

you should use a desodering iron

Trampoline · Post by **Trampoline** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:49 am

I have Ben's book, I am just having a little trouble. Its a great book. Good job Ben!

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:55 am

Well, directly beneath this expansion port, you should see pins on the slot itself, an illustration is in the chapter. Just desolder that off, and try to gently pry (what an oxymoron that statement was) off the slot. Now, if it wont come that easily, try and push a bit more, and if the actual motherboard is bending....STOP. Resolder the old pins with your own new solder, usually this chemical mix will allow the solder to be desoldered much easier solder, lot solder easy solder

. Just ignore everything after easier (that was a joke

). Yea, and after you desolder off the new solder, it should come off. Also, I mean pry, as in put the flathead screwdriver in flat between the slot and motherboard, you know, that tiny space you can shove into, and then just rotate the screwdriver either clockwise or counterclockwise, I hope this has helped you.

Trampoline · Post by **Trampoline** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:34 pm

Hello again,
Thank you all for your quick responses. What I ended up doing is prying the metal box off, breaking the plastic box until it could be broke no more, and cutting all the pins to their lowest possible point. And hey, guess what? It's only about a centimeter above the highest thing that won't be removed.
Thank you,
Jesse

Trampoline · Post by **Trampoline** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:42 pm

Oh, and, one more quick question. Under the expansion port when I was prying, I seem to have scraped off some of the green film. Is this a big deal? Oh, I forgot, I have another question. I scraped the outside of a capacitor. Is this a big deal? It was an orange capacitor. Thank you!

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:55 pm

Well, now I need to answer your questions with more questions. When you scratched in the green film, did it DEEPLY penetrate the traces, light green lines. Also, deep scratch in the capacitator?

Trampoline · Post by **Trampoline** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:19 pm

Nope not too bad on either. Maybe a little deep on the green film. I think it is over one trace but I think that is just a trace that is for the useless expansion port. Answers please! Hehe. Thanks for the help.

demonofaj · Post by **demonofaj** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 7:36 pm

Double check if it is the expansion port, then you're A-OK, if it's something else, errr, let's hope for the better (I'm not saying it's dead but that's not a desirable situation). The capcitator, well, run it, and if it doesn't work, keep on troubleshooting, if at the end it just does NOT work, it's dead...Actually, use the OFFICIAL adapter on use, if you didn't desolder the DC in port, that's good, and if you did, cut the wire in half, you'll find some 'unstranded' wire surrounding another insulated wire, then strip that, that INSIDE wire is POSITIVE, and the OUTSIDE wire is NEGATIVE, thus you solder the inside wire into the positive pin, central, and the negative to the ground pin, two surrounding pins on the side. Hmmm, if that scratch is like DEEP as in you can put a small bit of paper slightly in it, you gotta replace it, if not, it's good. I read you worked on carpet, errr, so it may be fried, keep on trouble shooting...hang on, maybe instead of working on that crap, just resolder the DC IN component in