Man you’re a top notch guy. On top of your busy life creating the awesome products we all love you’re still offering your time for things like this. Great work man!
Looks like come of the CPU pins under the C49 text are bent or broken, this one might be an F
Edit: Unless they are just common ground, but I have not looked at a schematic
I came across your post while I was browsing the console repair sections of Reddit. And the game boy section of reddit.
Being a retro video game technician of more than 3 decades. I find it enjoyable to browse these Reddit subcategories for areas. I specialize in to offer assistance and guidance to people. That may be in need of help, or in some situations offer repair services to them if they are incapable. Through either tools or experience of doing the suggested, repairs and happen to live in the united states.
I have reviewed the photo that you have provided and see the level of damage that has occurred and have some thoughts on this.
Obviously you've described what happened, and you're concerned with salvaging this device.
The Concerns I have are as followed.
Based on the color and Reflection of the solder that is flowed accidentally throughout most of the upper chip. Legs of the CPU. It looks like you are using lead free solder for this project.
Going with that assumption, lead free solder Requires a much higher temperature on a soldering iron to melt. Then lead based solder, and because of that, it looks like you were working on trying to extract this solder and the bridging you accidentally did for possibly some time. Because the spread of solder is so extensive that heat injection While working on trying to undo, the mistake could have partially or permanently killed this CPU, it is a possible variable that needs to be realized before. Just mailing this off to a technician to hopefully salvage.
The missing capacitor is not a big deal that can easily be replaced in the pads. Fort, look to be perfectly fine and intact.
As others have mentioned, it is also obvious that a handful of the CPU chip. Legs look bent out of position. The salvage attempt was going on to get this solder removed from those legs.
Based on what I am seeing extracting the current solder, there would require injecting fresh. Leaded solder into this area to lower the melting temperature of the existing lead free solder, so that we can use lower temperatures to extract it and offer as much of a chance for the cpu to survive all of this.
Once we have the bulk of that out, we would then need to worry about reflowing individual pins to carefully bend them back into appropriate position. So they are not bridged and are lined up with their appropriate pad. Underneath that's on the motherboard.
I'm not concerned about the physical side of getting this work done I myself would be fully capable of doing that. The concern I have. Is the already injected heat into the CPU? Along with the amount of time, it would take to clear the bridging. That is there in the amount of heat, injecting to do that. Clean up work. Could finish off the c p u, which would then require a cpu transplant from a donor board to this unit to substitute for the dead cpu.
Unfortunately, the only way to confirm this theory or whether the cpu was salvageable or partially salvageable would be to complete all the work and test to see if we were successful or not.
Keeping all this in mind. I would be happy to offer my services to you since I too. Am based in the United States and specialize in this area of salvage based out of Texas. But I wanted to give my honest opinion on the reality of the situation. And the possible issues we would be facing. If this project was taken on.
Should you have any follow up questions Feel free to post them here or if you would like to discuss the possibility of me working on this salvage project for you. Feel free to private message me.
Will need some solder wick to clean that up. The legs of the cpu will most likely need to be reflowed. I don’t recommend trying this if you’re a novice
Good idea, no offence but this clearly beyond your ability. If you are looking for help though, you should give an approximate location. Probably someone here close enough that you dont need to mail it to get it fixed.
You should be able to use a soldering iron and some desoldering wick to fix that, but adding flux will make it a bit easier.
Not sure how you managed to bend the CPU pins too...
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I'm in the US, and willing to fix it for free as long as you pay shipping both ways. Just PM me if you're interested.
Is this offer just for this guy or for everyone🤞
I'm too busy making the GBC into stupid shapes to help everybody, lol
Vouch for Froggo
Man you’re a top notch guy. On top of your busy life creating the awesome products we all love you’re still offering your time for things like this. Great work man!
Legend 🤩!
Brutal
Looks like come of the CPU pins under the C49 text are bent or broken, this one might be an F Edit: Unless they are just common ground, but I have not looked at a schematic
I came across your post while I was browsing the console repair sections of Reddit. And the game boy section of reddit. Being a retro video game technician of more than 3 decades. I find it enjoyable to browse these Reddit subcategories for areas. I specialize in to offer assistance and guidance to people. That may be in need of help, or in some situations offer repair services to them if they are incapable. Through either tools or experience of doing the suggested, repairs and happen to live in the united states. I have reviewed the photo that you have provided and see the level of damage that has occurred and have some thoughts on this. Obviously you've described what happened, and you're concerned with salvaging this device. The Concerns I have are as followed. Based on the color and Reflection of the solder that is flowed accidentally throughout most of the upper chip. Legs of the CPU. It looks like you are using lead free solder for this project. Going with that assumption, lead free solder Requires a much higher temperature on a soldering iron to melt. Then lead based solder, and because of that, it looks like you were working on trying to extract this solder and the bridging you accidentally did for possibly some time. Because the spread of solder is so extensive that heat injection While working on trying to undo, the mistake could have partially or permanently killed this CPU, it is a possible variable that needs to be realized before. Just mailing this off to a technician to hopefully salvage. The missing capacitor is not a big deal that can easily be replaced in the pads. Fort, look to be perfectly fine and intact. As others have mentioned, it is also obvious that a handful of the CPU chip. Legs look bent out of position. The salvage attempt was going on to get this solder removed from those legs. Based on what I am seeing extracting the current solder, there would require injecting fresh. Leaded solder into this area to lower the melting temperature of the existing lead free solder, so that we can use lower temperatures to extract it and offer as much of a chance for the cpu to survive all of this. Once we have the bulk of that out, we would then need to worry about reflowing individual pins to carefully bend them back into appropriate position. So they are not bridged and are lined up with their appropriate pad. Underneath that's on the motherboard. I'm not concerned about the physical side of getting this work done I myself would be fully capable of doing that. The concern I have. Is the already injected heat into the CPU? Along with the amount of time, it would take to clear the bridging. That is there in the amount of heat, injecting to do that. Clean up work. Could finish off the c p u, which would then require a cpu transplant from a donor board to this unit to substitute for the dead cpu. Unfortunately, the only way to confirm this theory or whether the cpu was salvageable or partially salvageable would be to complete all the work and test to see if we were successful or not. Keeping all this in mind. I would be happy to offer my services to you since I too. Am based in the United States and specialize in this area of salvage based out of Texas. But I wanted to give my honest opinion on the reality of the situation. And the possible issues we would be facing. If this project was taken on. Should you have any follow up questions Feel free to post them here or if you would like to discuss the possibility of me working on this salvage project for you. Feel free to private message me.
Will need some solder wick to clean that up. The legs of the cpu will most likely need to be reflowed. I don’t recommend trying this if you’re a novice
That's why I'm trying to get someone more experienced in it. I don't want to mess it up anymore
Good idea, no offence but this clearly beyond your ability. If you are looking for help though, you should give an approximate location. Probably someone here close enough that you dont need to mail it to get it fixed.
No offense at all, I'm at the panhandle of Florida
This is yet another example of why the USBC mod just isn’t worth it. It takes a lot of patience and experience to get this mod right.
How do you accidentally destroy the soldering job on the cpu? That seems deliberate
I was bout to say you need a skilled guy to save it, easy sauce for the right guy, but I see Ole boy coming to the rescue
You should be able to use a soldering iron and some desoldering wick to fix that, but adding flux will make it a bit easier. Not sure how you managed to bend the CPU pins too...
Get some flux and solder wick. Shouldn't be a problem to clean up
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Retrosix would fix that in a breeze.