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How do you apply the solder trace/bridge? Ive tried connecting the two joints together, but the solder just comes straight off the board, any ideas? How easy/hard is it to put Plcc sockets onto the board and how thin and what shape do the solder iron aids have to be? I may just scan part of the boar...

Nick as i may not be able to connect pin 21 track, how about linking pin21 from the chip to pin20 on the backup bios track,via a thin piece of wire as this is empty. my guess is, as this chip location does not have a chip on it, and it has the same properties as the other one i might be able to get ...

This Board has a Bios write protect jumper but no CMOS jumper, and as for the soldering iron, your correct its a bog standard 30watt iron. I used the chipquik kit to help me out, i'll admit it is good. As for the gap ,its about 1-2mm wide. It does not have a jumper but take a look at the info below:...

I have de-soldered the Plcc chip for this board:- a HY29F002T and re-programmed it, unfortunately a track on pin 20 came off the board and is stuck under one of the pins. It does have another area for a backup bios chip does anyone know - if i put it on that placement would the machine be able to bo...