A1200 broken IDE connector pins on motherboard

[Crom00]

Subject says it all, I pickued up a immaculate A1200 on CraigsList. White case, clean enough to eat off of.

It has been in storage for 12 years. Well I gues all that time fused the IDE cable to the motherboard, Because I could not for the life of me get it to release then pop...


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...Four pins came off the motherboard and are stuck deep in the cable.

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What are my options here. I've desoldered components from motherboards before and can resolder a header. Has anyone been through this?

Help.

[Crom00]

Just did a test on a 2.5 to big ide hard drive converter. I was able to desolder the header with a desoldering braid.

For those of you trying this. Use a good clean tip on the iron, and a clean braid, don't be stingy and re-use areas or the braid.

The worst thing you can do is lift one of the threads or grommets embedded in the motherboard. This happens if you have a cheap soldering iron with inconsistent heat on the tip or if you leave the tip in too long.

Going to try to remove the A1200 header, got to get a new cable and header at a computer show.

Will post shots in the tutorial area.


I will say, those of you that want to solder your own Mini-Mig are in for some nail bitting, nerve wracking time unless you work in a surface mount equipped electronics/ machine shop.

[Crom00]

Exactly what I didn't want to happen just did. Two traces lifted off the topside of the motherboard. One of the sockets for the pin just wore away under the head of the soldering iron.

I have done lots of xbox stuff and have been able to reconnect these traces before, but it's pot luck.

I did get all the pins out, it figures that this happens on the last 2 pins.

There was aparently some solder still in there despite 30 minutes of heating the area to lif out the pin.

[Crom00]

Tried this, the machine boots off of floppy, not hd. Now the mouse port doesnt really work. I can left and right click but no movement. Time to order a new MB fom amiga kit. Any suggestoins?

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[Crom00]

Jope wrote:
For future's sake, if anyone else experiences the same, only replace the pins that are broken.. No point in unsoldering and resoldering the ones that are still good.
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Yah huh... what he just said.... I of course realized this after the hatchet job I did.

[Crom00]

The male header on the 12 was such a hassle I placed a female header on there and soureced a genber changer, this way any future stress would be placed on the gender changer, connenctor soldered to the motherbvoard. This way if any future pins brea? Bam, just pop in a new header...

At least in theory...

Anyone want a A1200 motherboard for use with a tower conv or Mediator 1200 or just plain parts harvesting? Provided of course you have a scsi controller on the accelarator for hard drive access.

PM me with an offer.
$35 shipped to the 48 con states USA, $45 everywhere else?