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H/PC Elite Posts: | 734 |
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| 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. |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| what do you mean by 'chipped out'? |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 734 |
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| I mean ... 'Come Out'. |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| 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. |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 734 |
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| 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. |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| so the pins have not come out, they're bent? |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 734 |
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| YES and i cannot reach them |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| 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. |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 734 |
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| Thanks, but i don't think it's worth doing. Thanks for your advice though. |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| It isn't a difficult operation, I've pulled a fair few of them apart before now on which I can state that. |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,836 |
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| 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 |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| "then using a pin, start to..." |
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Moderator H/PC Vanguard Posts: | 2,836 |
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| 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 |
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Administrator H/PC Oracle Posts: | 18,043 |
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| Oh Jake, don't be such a Pin Head |
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H/PC Elite Posts: | 734 |
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| It's not that it just that ... because my Ericsson MC16 has a monochrome display, it won't handle modern web pages very well. |
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