Take care when remove ics (Saved a VDP)
Posted: 17 Apr 2021 16:34
Hi.
Just want to remind, take care when you remove socked chips from the MTX mainboard, those chips may not have been out for many years, and kind of stuck there. Today I ran into a problem, and I wanted to swap the VDP, suddenly I discovered on of the pin was broken, it was left in the Socket.
When the chip is removed from the socket it do help to spay with some contact cleaner.
I saved the VDP by soldering a new PIN to it......
Just want to remind, take care when you remove socked chips from the MTX mainboard, those chips may not have been out for many years, and kind of stuck there. Today I ran into a problem, and I wanted to swap the VDP, suddenly I discovered on of the pin was broken, it was left in the Socket.
When the chip is removed from the socket it do help to spay with some contact cleaner.
I saved the VDP by soldering a new PIN to it......
- VDP out of the socket, the chip can be very hard to get out, take care!!!
- mtxvdp1.jpg (219.38 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- Pin 7 broke, was still in the socket, now removed!
- mtxvdp2.jpg (48.27 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- An old PC Mainboard Eprom, from my trashbin had to donate a "LEG" to the VDP.
- mtxvdp4.jpg (69.74 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- The chip is ready to get the new PIN soldered.
- mtxvdp6.jpg (129.12 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- The PIN have now been soldered to the chip.
- mtxvdp5.jpg (131.66 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- Back in the socket, ready to test.
- mtxvdp7.jpg (98.59 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- Windows users hate blue screens, but I am happy to see this blue screen.
- mtxvdp8.jpg (60.44 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
- Also testing a bit by playing a game.
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- My contact spray, it make good contact in the socket, and make the chip a bit easyer to get out next time.
- mtxvdp3.jpg (94.88 KiB) Viewed 7355 times
