downtime wrote: > Thanks maggior and Pascal. I have tried it without the wifi card with no > luck - the S/PDIF light still glows red but no boot up. I bought this SB > new in the summer of 2007, so it's seen some use, but never been opened > before. > > Below is a photo of the other side of the card. The blue capacitor (is > that the word?) is soldered to the white spot on the other side and the > board with input/output ports, etc. is soldered to the line of points > with the smear. > > If it needs to be serviced, do you have any idea where I can send it? > > Thanks again for your help.
It's not only the capacitor that was serviced, that row of solder points below it look like they were hit with a soldering iron too. That whitish residue could be from a spray used to clean residual flux from the circuit board after soldering. I wonder if there was an engineering change that changed that cap and they went back into some inventory and made the change? ...something like that probably would have made it into the forums though... Do you have any experience using a soldering iron on a circuit board? If so, it would be worth hitting the solder joints on the capacitor with a soldering iron to freshen up the solder joint. If that doesn't help, it would be worth hitting the row of solder joints below the cap. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ maggior's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=9080 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=97577 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
