time to fess up

[coius]

As you guys know, i overclocked my eMac 700 to 900. Well, a bit later I tried to downclock it only to find that I did a horrible job. So tonight I sat down with my dad and looked at it really close to find out in horror that not only had I failed, but I COMPLETELY destroyed the traces and anything AROUND the area. Needless to say, I am looking for another board. So I fessed up on craigslist and am in the market for a new board

Hopefully SOMEONE bites. Because if it being the holidays and the need to save, I cannot offer any money. Only trades. SOMEONE has to have a board from a dead eMac. I would take ANY Specs. Even without ram

 

[SiliconValleyPirate]

Sorry to sound like an old man, but this is the reason I never dick about with stuff like this on modern boards - they are extremely fragile and sensitive to heat. Thin traces, multilayer boards, and a hot iron tend to end in disaster if you even slip a little or leave the iron on slightly too long.

Cest-la-vie eh? This is how we humans learn best. I've had enough hand-to-forehead moments in my time. Despite being very careful every time I worked on it, I snapped the glass nipple off the back of the tube in my SE/30 once. There's few things more agonising than listening to the display vacuum filling with air through a small hole.

 

[Mike Richardson]

There's few things more agonising than listening to the display vacuum filling with air through a small hole.

:bserves moment of silence for SE/30 tube and eMac motherboard::

:'(

 

[MacJunky]

coius, can you get us some closeup pictures? I would like to see if it could be salvaged by the likes of me or if it would even be worth my time to try.

*Edit

Hum, aren't there a couple different variations with the eMac lobos throughout the line potentially making a different one incompatible?

 

[LCGuy]

Its ok man..these things happen to all of us. Remember August, when i blew up my Athlon? :-/

I still have the CPU, i'm keeping it as memento from the time when i blew up the fastest computer I'd ever owned :-/

 

[funkytoad]

I think it is safe to say that we will all do something of this nature in our lifetime. Sorry man.

 

[madmax_2069]

I think it is safe to say that we will all do something of this nature in our lifetime. Sorry man.

i know i sure did, it was a doozy as well. but not to a new system. it was a old 286 or 386 wize (or was it wise) desktop.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

heh. I'm a bad electronic engineer, I've destroyed probably 6-7 motherboards in my day. At least back in high school, I wasn't the one that blew out the SE by using a metal tool and making a connection on the back of the tube. KA-POW!!!! Lucky he didn't zap himself.

(I did however have a short in the wall AC circuit of one of my electronics projects, and blew out the electrical grid for 1/4 of the school when I plugged the cord into the wall. Ah, the smell of ozone, I know it well.)

I did just get a Newton 2000 off Craigslist that was known dead, and when I opened it up, I could see that one of the capacitors had blown, charring a decent portion of the motherboard, and even having "capacitor goo" that had destroyed a few other surface mount components. I had been hoping for something simpler, but this one is just plain dead.

 

[Franklinstein]

Everybody screws up, which is what this thread is for. Just be happy you made your mistake on a relatively common machine, instead of something like a TAM or a rare clone or antique audio equipment.