Bad soldering job on AV out

[grayfox126]

Okay I'm a complete noob at soldering. After an hour of work I got 2 points perfected, the composite video and left audio. Now I made sure each were not bridging to other points, but just out of curiosity I must ask, would it have been okay if the composite would have been bridged to one of the HD pins or the s-video pins? And what about the left and right audio being bridged together? Just wondering.

[XCVG]

It shouldn't blow up anything but it might screw up the signal. Scratch that, it WILL screw up the signal.

[WERD]

If the solder points on the bottom of the board are unusable now, then just follow the traces coming out of the solder points back to the component it is connected too and it will work fine. It will probably be a smd component but its good practice.

[XCVG]

If the solder points on the bottom of the board are unusable now, then just follow the traces coming out of the solder points back to the component it is connected too and it will work fine. It will probably be a smd component but its good practice.

Hey, I had to do that on my N64!

[WERD]

Hey, I had to do that on my N64!

I have had to do it on some of the DC's I've modded. I tried modding a few years back and I didn't have much experience with soldering or the Dreamcast for that matter and I screwed up the solder points on the back quite a bit. So when I finally wanted to do some stuff with my Dreamcast later I had to solder onto the SMD components.