Major problems, please help!!!

leezer3 · 6 Jul 2006 at 12:35

Motherboard Repairs- Need to solder back on battery holder!

Hiya,
I've got what is almost certainly going to turn out to be a broken board here, but please help anyway

Anyway, for those who have seen my GH thread ( http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17596870 ) I have serious problems getting the board in question (Abit KX7-333R) to boot. These problems have taken a pretty major twist- After trying known good RAM still nothing, so I decided to try changing the CMOS battery, again for a known good. Trouble is, the whole batery socket came off the board when I pinged the battery out (Yes, I have changed CMOS batterys in the past

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Now the board is actually booting, but I've got GRUB error 21 instead (Drive setup toasted in the BIOS). Any thoughts on a bodge-fix- I can't keep the battery socket on properly just by fitting it back in place, but if I push at the right angle I can get the standard checksum fail & defaults loaded as opposed to the CPU setup wrong message without the battery installed.

Soldering wise, I may be able to do something but I suspect my iron tip is going to be too big.

Also, does the behaviour in the previous thread point to a wider hardware problem?

-Leezer-

boxley · 6 Jul 2006 at 17:35

I don't know much about this kind of thing but maybe it would be easier to stick it with some conductive paint rather than clumsy soldering, especially onto tiny mobo tracks??

leezer3 · 6 Jul 2006 at 20:24

Its only two pins as such that go into tracks- Nothing much there really (bottom right mobo corner).
As I see it, I'm probably going to have to solder wires to the two pins and then remount the battery holder elsewhere. I would still like thoughts of anyone who's come across this sort of problem though- There must definitely have been something underlying; Battery holders don't just come off :eek:

leezer3 · 7 Jul 2006 at 20:12

Bump

Picked up a 1mm bit for the iron & a new battery today, would appreciate thoughts from anyone who's done this type of job before.

-Leezer-

Dark_Angel · 7 Jul 2006 at 20:25

Well, you could try something like attaching small wires to the motherboard tracks and solder the wires to the battery. No idea if that would work though :/

leezer3 · 7 Jul 2006 at 21:00

Fortunately the socket assembly's still intact, so I'm planning to mount the battery in that somwhere near the bottom of the case & play from there. Its more the soldering I'm worried about than anything else- Never tried anything quite so fiddly & so many possibilities for going wrong :eek:

Least its only a cheap Socket A board!

-Leezer-