Tips with soldering...

[Philippine Mango]

Isn't key to good soldering is not only a stead hand, patience etc. but good soldering gun, various tips and solder? I've only got one type of solder and soldering iron+tip which came with a computer tools kit. I obtained a Celeron P4 and two of the pins broke off, I tried to solder them back on but when I tried to solder the pins back on, it didn't really work out and so I gave up. Now I'm wondering how to go about soldering a pin onto the processor as I saw a thread on this site with a guy who did it (if it was come, come forth).

 

[IAteYourMother]

hakko 936 and Kester makes some decent solder, 60/40 stuff.

 

[kyparrish]

Basically, to be brutally honest, if you're not an expert or close to one as far as soldering goes, you're not going to be able to jump right in and solder pins back to processors. It's just too intricate.

Have you tried using the chip anyway? The 2 pins might just be redundant grounds, and it might work anyway. If there's a schematic online, maybe we can figure out what the missing pins do.

 

[Philippine Mango]

How do you become an expert? I've been soldering since about 2002/3 so I'm not sure how to become an "expert"..

 

[ucdbiendog]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
How do you become an expert? I've been soldering since about 2002/3 so I'm not sure how to become an "expert"..

by soldering small objects. soldering wires together for speakerwires etc isnt by any means difficult.

 

[kyparrish]

Originally posted by: Philippine Mango
How do you become an expert? I've been soldering since about 2002/3 so I'm not sure how to become an "expert"..

Practice, practice, practice. I solder to small PCB's nearly daily, but I've never tried resoldering a pin back to a processor.

I'd try sticking a small thread of copper from speaker wire down in your cpu socket, and have it barely sticking up to make contact with where the pin should be.