I was trying to remove the backplate and my hand slipped and I accidentally scratched it with the screwdriver. I think there used to be a transistor here. Is this fixable? I have basic soldering skills.

Edit: This is the back of the CPU socket so I’m kind of freaking out.

  • Kabutor@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    i don’t think the tracks are broken, it all comes down to the price of the M/B, if you can’t replace the missing capacitor and it’s an expensive motherboard you can take some place to refit a capacitor and put some uv mask on the tracks. If it’s a cheap board, just put some tape over the aired tracks and try it if you have crashes, just replace with a new one.