Broken PCMCIA socket on Ericsson MC16

Does anyone know how to fix this? Two pins have chipped out of my pcmcia socket and i cant use a wifi card. I try searching for a compatible compact flash wifi, and there's nothing there. Any help thanks.

what do you mean by 'chipped out'?

I mean ... 'Come Out'.

Reattaching it isn't going to be an easy job, especially if you do not have the pins. I have a spare MC12 board and you'd break it completely if you put a soldering iron anywhere near the pin sinks. You could try bonding them back, however the risk is that they come out in a card, you don't notice or can't get to them and you've wrecked the card + any other slot that you put the card in.

The better approach would be to replace the board or the entire PC Card module.

Well I still have the pins ... just that the 2 pins of the pcmcia socket have angled in a weird way ... the rest are fine. Even trying to fit a pcmcia card in it it doesn't detect it at all. Its probably the age of the device.

so the pins have not come out, they're bent?

YES and i cannot reach them

ok... necessary semantics aside, you need to pull it apart completely to gain access to the slot and then using a pin start to tease the pins out again.

Thanks, but i don't think it's worth doing. Thanks for your advice though.

It isn't a difficult operation, I've pulled a fair few of them apart before now on which I can state that.

Hi, Chris,

I'm intrigued by mention of the tool, "pin start." I did some goggling, ebaying, but couldn't find it. Does it have a more official name? I'd like to buy one.

Jake

"then using a pin, start to..."

I can't remember the last time a single comma cleared up so much. I was, as James Thurbur would say, "commatose."

Actually, I liked "pin start" better without the comma--I had this vision of some sort of manual device that straightened forlorn pins, saving PCMCIA slots around the world. Neither Google nor ebay shared my imagination.

Jake

Oh Jake, don't be such a Pin Head

It's not that it just that ... because my Ericsson MC16 has a monochrome display, it won't handle modern web pages very well.