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Also yeah, if anyone else has any ideas or suggestions towards this, I'd appreciate

Appreciate the offer and to be honest I'm also quite curious about your method. The whole deal with my attempt was to avoid extra equipment as I don't expect I'll be doing it often enough for the investment to be worth it (only reason I even bought a UV light was because I got fed up waiting for...

As said in the title. It was my first real experience with the whole process (aside from a GameCube Memory Card). Generally I'm quite happy with the result but the one thing that was unexpected is that I ended up with three spots of the plastic that turned out a bit brighter than the rest (top...

Thanks, good to know

Here you go

OK noted. Another question about the SIMM, is there any way to tell the capacity just by looking at it, maybe the numbers on the sticker?

Yes all 8 RAM chips are removed, I do have a new battery (bought when I recaped the PSU) and I tried the key-hold-down multiple times to no result. There are a few unknow variables though: 1. I have no clue what the capacity of my RAM SIMM is (just that it has 8 chips and the pads for one more)...

So Update: I managed to remove the remaining 4 chips without ripping pads of but it still does nothing. No video, basically imediate chime. On one side I'm a little concerned that the heat gun may have damaged something but if I'm honest with myself that doesn't seem likely. Any other ideas?

To be honest I'm considering admitting defeat. I've taken of half of the chips and still nothing happens. In addition I've had the bad luck that I managed to rip of one of the solder pads per chip and I'm most likely not able to repair that or even put the chips back on if the pads were all...

there isn't by chance any way to test the chips without taking them off is there?

I have to admit that won't be easy as i do not have the steadiest hands or best soldering equipment however i'll at least give it a try. Are we talking about just taking them of, cleaning and putting them back or is it full on replacing the chips?

Heres a video of it "starting" if that helps with any diagnosis

Took a while (i had to aquire a keyboard first) but it doesnt seem to change anything. I still only get the chime even when holding down the keys. also the chime happens basically immediatly after the "bong" and theres also no activity on the floppy drive when i put a boot disc in (the computer...

I am only just realizing that the logic board recap might have been completely unnecessary the more i think about all of this

Yeah on topic of that. I've heard that sometimes even if you have a battery the PRAM needs to be reset. How do I do that? I only know its got something to do with the keyboard.