Does anyone know any ways to repair a circuit board that had a connector rip off of it?
I was hooking my 360’s DVD drive up to my motherboard via a SATA cable– and the dvd drives SATA port totally ripped off from the PCB. The spot where it was soldered in was completely stripped down to the plastic. I need to somehow get the SATA cable wires connected to the PCB again, even if it is a permanent connection.
Luckily all of the paths on the board have thru holes I can use, but Im not sure if they can be used as solder points. I could only come up with 2 plans to get this dvd drive working again, either use the strands from a straned wire I completely stripped to try to solder each individual SATA wire to its proper path OR follow the paths to the terminal of the first component and just solder into those since it would still be the same node.
Im wondering if anyone knows any other tips/tricks that I could use that might be easier or just better in general. Im open to trying anything at this point because I dont want to have to buy a new 360 dvd drive for .
Here is a link to a page a threw together to show the damage.
http://bonesaw.kicks-ass.org/PCB.html
ok, I didn’t relize yahoo would block part of my web address. I have to reveal the black portion in 3 parts so it wont be blocked again……. here it is
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sorry for the 50 additions
the missing connector was actually the power supply and not a SATA port like my original question stated. Its a 12 pin connector with multiple pins going to ground and some are not used.
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it would help enormously if you could take a couple of close-up pictures of the "broken" pieces, so I can imagine the best way to put them back together. (upload them to photobucket.com or ringo.com or any other photosharing site and write the link here, as additional information).
else, better pay the 80$… 
( also I hope you have a good one, with temperature regulation and fine tip. else, back to the 80$ solution… 
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I hope you’re good in working with a soldering iron and tweezers…
later edit:
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here are the pinouts for the 2 types of SATA connectors:
http://pinouts.ru/HD/serialATA.shtml
http://pinouts.ru/Power/sata-power.shtml
the first one (7 pins) is for data, the second one (15 pins) power supply, on the motherboard.
unfortunately, I can’t see too well the damaged area…
as far as I can "guess" what I see, it looks that you could solder the stripped wires of a SATA cable in the holes and on the resistors (pay great attention when soldering near/on these! FIRST prepare the wire by putting some solder on it, use some flux paste and do the final solder AS QUICK AS YOU CAN!). the same goes for the holes, but it’s not so difficult, and those should be easy to make.
after finishing the soldering part, it would be advisable to measure with an ohmmeter the correctness of the wiring, according with a similar SATA connection. only after this I would trust to connect the "patched" drive.
suggestion: take a 1mm (approx. 1/20") copper wire and with its aid fix the soldered cable to some hole and/or screw of the PCB, so it does not take the stress in the soldered wires.
good luck!
PS a 30W soldering iron would be a good choice, provided with a thin/fine tip. use a low temperature solder (I would recommend Sn/Pb/Ag alloy types).
all soldered points must be cleaned afterward with a fine brush and some isopropylic alcohol. (isopropanol)