HELP Broke a Pin on my mobo!!

whitecrook · 14 Jan 2007 at 23:48

Well I was carefully putting together my new system and about half way through I noticed that one of the Pins on my IDE connector was bent 90 degrees so I went to straighten it but it snapped off.

It's Pin 40 - ground. I'm using 80 wire cables.

Will it make any difference? Will I have to try and re solder a new IDE plug back on? I haven;t yet tried it though, will do tomorrow. Just incase any body has done this before and knows what to do.

Could I just break out the wire from the cable and wire straight to ground elsewhere in the case?

Would that work?

Jokester · 14 Jan 2007 at 23:52

You might be ok because as far as I'm aware the 80 wire cables have several grounds through them to minimise cross talk etc.

Jokester

sja360 · 14 Jan 2007 at 23:55

there is a IDE pin guide here - http://pinouts.ru/HD/AtaInternal_pinout.shtml

whitecrook · 15 Jan 2007 at 00:01

shame it wasn't pin 39 - LED. Never mind I am hopeful it will still work, and PIN 40 is probably ground wire for the LED so it shouldn't be so bad. I'll give it a shot. I't only a UDMA2 (DMA3) interface, so I could go to a 40 pin wire and hack it if necessary.