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I'd forgotten just how much I hate desoldering those little surface mount resistors that are right about 2mm long and something about half that wide, and how much more I hate soldering jumper wires in their place.
So, in a fit of absolute genius, I decided that I'd yank the processor board out of the G4 and remind myself just how sickeningly wonderful it is to sit there with a soldering iron, a magnifying glass, and hands that shake a bit even without caffeine and attempt to rewire the board using 30 gauge wrapping wire without, you know, breaking the trace, the solder pad (been there, done that, do NOT want to repeat that experience ever again. Ever.) or the wires.
Three hours into it and I've got 4 resistors removed, 16 solder pads cleaned, one 8 position DIP switch and 8 wires soldered, and 4 more wires half-soldered. Now I remember why it was that the last time I looked up how to reconfigure the resistors that control the multiplier on these processors that I decided that doing this to my 733 was enough for one year, and that I'd wait to do the 533s until next year.
*headdesks*
Yeah, that's about it. No real point to the post, just had to whine and moan about it somewhere. If you made it this far, thanks for reading.
So, in a fit of absolute genius, I decided that I'd yank the processor board out of the G4 and remind myself just how sickeningly wonderful it is to sit there with a soldering iron, a magnifying glass, and hands that shake a bit even without caffeine and attempt to rewire the board using 30 gauge wrapping wire without, you know, breaking the trace, the solder pad (been there, done that, do NOT want to repeat that experience ever again. Ever.) or the wires.
Three hours into it and I've got 4 resistors removed, 16 solder pads cleaned, one 8 position DIP switch and 8 wires soldered, and 4 more wires half-soldered. Now I remember why it was that the last time I looked up how to reconfigure the resistors that control the multiplier on these processors that I decided that doing this to my 733 was enough for one year, and that I'd wait to do the 533s until next year.
*headdesks*
Yeah, that's about it. No real point to the post, just had to whine and moan about it somewhere. If you made it this far, thanks for reading.