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is it possible to romove the pci slots from the motherboard (the white slot things)AMD Athlon XP 1900
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Why is the first thing I would ask. Even then I wouldn't do it, you run to much of risk of completely destroying the motherboard. One slip of the soldering iron and its gone for good.
Stuart
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Point of interest - lacie, you appear to have malware on your machine, as described in this post - it's inserting HTML links for ntsearch.com in various keywords in your message.
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Kevin - You can't saw through a multi-layer circuit board without circuit damage.
Stuart - There are too many pins to simultaneously unsolder.
The only way I see is to use a high speed mill and cut socket and pins off almost flush. The problem is keeping the remnants of conductive debris from possibly shorting some of the pins of the adjacent flat pack components.
You can unsolder by destroying the socket and then carefully unsoldering and removing the remaining pins.
I have salvaged components off of circuit boards using a hot air 'torch', but never from a motherboard that I wanted to keep.
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Wizard-Fred, you didn't think I was serious about using a reciprocating saw, were you? I was just being sarcastic.
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And I just went out & bought a fine tooth sawblade for my DeWalt...lol
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"Stuart - There are too many pins to simultaneously unsolder" That's what solder suckers are for to desolder 1 pin at a time. Do it all the time, but as the first 2 posts say why?
Great response jamWhen all else fails beat the $%!* out of it!!!
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Kevin - I was pretty sure you were being sarcastic, but you could have made it clearer if you had suggested using a chainsaw or sawzall.
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What we don't know yet, and I would really like to know, the curiosity is killing me, is why!
Stuart
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I think he probably needs another slot in a different PC, so he's just going to take it off the one and put it on the other.
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Grok Lobster, I bet that is exactly why he/she wants to remove a PCI slot. Well, it makes as much sense as it does to consider removing a slot in the first place. But then again, an explanation for removing the slot has not been given.
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Maybe the motherboard won't fit in the case for some reason - maybe he's trying to stick an ATX motherboard in an AT case, for instance. I'm not suggesting this is a good idea, but just one that comes to mind.
Hey, based on the idea of needing extra PCI slots for another machine, I could use an extra PCI slot in my PC Chips M748LMRT motherboard (1 PCI/1 ISA shared), so if this works out, please let me know. he he
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Wouldn't it be nice if people who asked these weird questions ever came back to clarify things?
Or maybe they're just trolls.
It is not only possible, but I've done similar things on 36-40 pin edge connectors for electronic equipment. You actually can do this with some patience, a desoldering station and some good lights and magnifier is pretty much required in my case, but "desoldering braid" will also do the job.
Why on earth anyone wants, to, is beyond me, unless they broke a connector.
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Hi
Some pci slots become damaged and need replacing. (it makes you wonder how anyone could be that rough trying to get a card in. Note sometimes its the card that is at fault -- too thin or thick)
Adding to what name and angrymen2001 have said, its recommended on sensitive electrical circuitry, you use an non static solering iron. (A cheap gas soldering iron would do)
Why some people don't get back has it reasons. (it fustrates me as well but oh well, it can't be helped). It bothers me more when long term members of Computing.net don't respond though, but they are less likely to get an answer from me the next time.
Some possible reasons :
a-1/ They don't frequent a forum regularly and feel there's no point posting a reply when it seems to them, the thread is dead.
a-2/ Only reply via email to the response that they feel helped them - esp if some length of time has passed since posting the question.
b-1/ Won't respond if a number of responses have chastised them in some way (esp the presence of a howler/s - see www.flamewarriors.com)
b-2/ They are sensitive to one or more relpies and won't reply. eg made fun of, profanity, intelligence, familiarity, etc.
c/ Don't understand proper netiquette Example Netiquette guidelines
d/ They gave up just after posting the question, and their busy lives means they forget all the small things they do during a week
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