My first time ever soldering! :P

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  • aressem
    New Member
    • Jul 2010
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    #1

    My first time ever soldering! :P

    So it turns out the video card in my file server (secondary PC) died. I did some research online and it turned out that my particular model used cheap #@$%ing capacitors that were notorious for blowing up.. yes, they literally blew up and spewed chemicals all over the place. SO.... I watched an hours worth of youtube vids on "how to solder", spent $7 on 10x new capacitors and went to work. Conclusion: IT WORKED!!!

    I really needed a 3rd hand to do this job but since I was alone I had to innovate :P


















    Last edited by aressem; 07-29-2010, 04:05 PM.
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    • goodpsusearch
      Badcaps Legend
      • Oct 2009
      • 2850
      • Greece
      #2
      Re: My first time ever soldering! :P

      well done

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        • uligli
          Senior Member
          • Aug 2006
          • 139
          #3
          Re: My first time ever soldering! :P

          Congrat Welcome to the DIY's world.

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            • Per Hansson
              Super Moderator
              • Jul 2005
              • 5895
              • Sweden
              #4
              Re: My first time ever soldering! :P

              Welcome to badcaps
              Isn't it a great feeling to fix stuff?
              "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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                • MXM
                  Badcaps Veteran
                  • Feb 2010
                  • 430
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                  Re: My first time ever soldering! :P

                  @OP:

                  Welcome to badcaps!... and...

                  congrats!

                  Innovations rule!! haha yours look niceee!!!! i still havent innovated a third arm haha

                  BTW there are great posts and tutorials on this site that i bet they beat whatever you saw on youtube... unless they r made by the same :P:

                  @Per Hansson, imagine how i feel sometimes when i realize i cant figure out those #(&/$&$ P4SD i havent fixed, pisses me off a lot, but, i keep on trying thanks to the badcaps community ive managed to fix some and i keep trying on the rest. Not a quitter, definetly.

                  peace.
                  We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression.

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                    • aressem
                      New Member
                      • Jul 2010
                      • 2
                      #6
                      Re: My first time ever soldering! :P

                      Thanks for all the comments guys! I've always been a DIY kinda guy but I won't lie, I was a lil worried when I put the card in and turned the power on for the first time that it would smoke! lol.... In fact I wouldn't even plug my monitor in until I knew it successfully posted and no caps blew :P. I learned a lot in school (A+, Network+, MSCE, CCNA & CCNP certified) but they never taught me how to do this, haha. Thanks to your website and a bunch of videos on youtube though, I managed to figure it out and not set my house on fire..... yet! :P

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