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A3640 bad mod?
« on: January 07, 2015, 05:58:24 PM »
A few years back I got an A4000 from ebay that work for a few months and then quit working.  I have acquired another since.  I originally thought I had a bad motherboard, but I have since confirmed that the A3640 is bad.  It is a rev 3.0.

I noticed that pin 5 of U200 has been cut off the chip and pad 5 and six shorted together.  I have read about the partial 3.1 upgrade where this is done with pins six and seven but I have found no references to pin 5. Is this a factory mod or did someone just screwup the upgrade? Could this have damaged the board?

Should I try to reverse it?  There seems to be a tiny bit left of pin 5 on U200 that I might be able to jumper.
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