Nonsocketed Buster in Rev B A4000 ?

[Jose]

Were all those socketed ? Mine seems to be soldered to the motherboard.

P.S. No I still haven't got the machine to work... :-(

[Ilwrath]

I don't think I have seen any with socketted Busters standard.  I think all of them were surface mount, unless someone updated them with a socket to put in the Super Buster 11.

[PaSha]

Early A4000's had non-socketed buster 9, then came the socketed buster 9, and finally the non-socketed buster 11 in the A4000 CR rev D.

[drewz21]

My A4000D is socketed.  It has rev. 11 in it now.

[Jose]

Hmm, and how difficult is it to upgrade the non-socketed version ?

[drewz21]

I've not done it but I've read it is VERY hard to do.

[x56h34]

PaSha wrote:
Early A4000's had non-socketed buster 9, then came the socketed buster 9, and finally the non-socketed buster 11 in the A4000 CR rev D.

I have an A4000 rev B motherboard that has an SMT Buster-11 chip on it, so sometime before the CR line arrived, they were doing it to rev B motherboards as well.

[Jose]

I imagine. But that must be by hand no ? Back in 1990 people didn't throw away motherboards like today, so there must have been (be) some equipment that makes doing the job easy.

[adolescent]

My second hand A4000 had a surface mounted 9 upgraded to 11.  It doesn't look terribly hard, provided you have a SMT re-work station.

[Jose]

@adolescent

..or I could find someone who has. Probably not an easy find.
I'm still pondering wether to get another mobo and sell the current one.