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needed: anyone offer motherboard trace fixes or 30 pin holder replacment?

oblivion

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here is my perdiciment. I had a late model 386 board that was pretty nice, only issue with it was the 30 pin simm holders were obviously a little delicate. anyways lately at a thirft I came a cross a nice 386 era case, the one with a big power switch and it was a much smaller case so it could actually fit nicely under my computer desk. unfortunately on bringing it home I discovered it had a nice motherboard but it was damaged from battery leakage."no problem i thought, i'll just transfer motherboards" unfortunately in the transfer the simm slots was damaged and several simm sockets no longer hold the RAM properly. board no longer POSTS and I get the 3 beep error. I tried everything including rubber bands but I can not seat the RAM correctly.

looking on Ebay I can find no comparable motherboards so to my original question.

is anyone willing to either

A) desolder the old simm slots and solder on new ones
B) attempt to fix the traces from the battery leak on the other board (it doesnt look to bad, just one thick trace from the power supply connector is bad)
C) both

any help would be appreciated.
 
arrow_runner said:
If you can't find anyone closer, I should have no problem doing either repair. Can you supply the simm holders?
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I would greatly appreciate it. there both nice late model 386 boards and I would hate to see them end up as trash.

I don't have any holders atm. The only ones I see on Ebay are in the UK which isn't a huge issue as there not to pricy. I'll take a look in my boxes though to see if I have any old dead boards.
 
oblivion said:
I would greatly appreciate it. there both nice late model 386 boards and I would hate to see them end up as trash.

I don't have any holders atm. The only ones I see on Ebay are in the UK which isn't a huge issue as there not to pricy. I'll take a look in my boxes though to see if I have any old dead boards.
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If you need vertical 30-pin SIMM sockets, Jameco has them for about $1.50 each.
 
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