possibly messed up controller port

bmire1985 · Post by **bmire1985** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:56 pm

when I was desoldering the controller port I pryed it up with a screw driver and some copper tube-like pieces were attached to the leads on the port. Did I mess up the holes for the controller to be soldered onto?

zipper · Post by **zipper** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 6:24 am

Yo may be ok. I pulled tubes out with mine, but still had copper rings around the holes. I pushed my wires into the holes and soldered to these rings and it still worked (thankfully).
So if you still have somewhere to solder too, it's likely it'll still work fine.

bmire1985 · Post by **bmire1985** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 3:46 pm

thanks for the reply ill post whether or not it works after I get the rest of my supplies/material need to finish the portable.

bmire1985 · Post by **bmire1985** » Wed Jan 17, 2007 10:36 pm

the book says to use ribbon cable to connect things in portables but could I use the solid but thin copper wires inside an ethernet/ cat5 cable as an alternative. I happen to get some of this free. The individual wires have a plastic insulation if that needs to mentioned.

Krepticor · Post by **Krepticor** » Thu Jan 18, 2007 2:45 pm

yea it sounds like you actually didn't have ANYTHING to worry about, as long as those thin wire traces were not lifted up or ripped away, then your definatley able to older to it and get something to work