Repairing Traces And Lifted Pads - Microsoft Xbox Repair Manual

Repairing Traces and Lifted Pads

Here is a photo of an Xbox motherboard that has a failed mod attempt. Prior to fixing the traces
the box would attempt to boot three times and then go to the flashing red and green led. The
orange line in the upper center is where a conductive pen was used to attempt to re-connect a
lifted trace. Also, not so obvious is that the pad above it was lifted and is not connected.
NOTE: Always use a 15-20 Watt soldering iron for work on a motherboard. I cannot stress this
enough, if you think it can be done with a 30-40 watt iron you are making a costly mistake.
This happens way too often and it can all be prevented for £4.00
To resolve this problem the goal is to reconnect both the originating point and the terminating
point with a length of wire. Cut 30AWG insulated wire to length as appropriate, strip and tin the
ends.
As you can see the lower blue one is tough to get at, without heating up the orange component
with the iron.
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