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    dos-man 64  wrote:   
      
   > On Mar 11, 8:23 pm, Kendrick Kerwin Chua  wrote:   
   > > In article   
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   > > dos-man 64   wrote:   
   > > That tells me there are cold solder joints on the socket. There's only   
   > > nine pins, so with a nice 15-watt iron and a small enough tip it should be   
   > So you're saying that those silvery thingies have stretched a bit?   
   > The ones in the back are impossible to reach. I couldn't even get to   
   > them with specialized flat-headed q-tips to clean them. I might give   
   > it a try once the weather gets a little warmer.   
      
   No, he's saying that the solder joints have cracked. They can develop   
   tiny, barely visible ring cracks around the pin, causing frustratingly   
   intermittent connections. You take the unit apart where you can see the   
   bottom of the circuit board, and use a soldering iron to re-melt the   
   connections to the connectors.   
      
   I found a Genesis 2 once where about half of the connector pins had cold   
   solder joints. (controller ports, video port, AND power connectors)   
      
   http://www.google.com/search?q=cold%20solder%20joint   
      
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