Alright, practiced and then swapped the chips, seemed to go fine, worked fast and used flux, and now it appears to recognize the device. I'm in the process of transferring all the files and backing them up. Thanks so much for all the help, y'all are lifesavers!
I ordered a .2mm tip for my hacko, temp settings recomendation? also so desoldering braid, i have a big heatgun, should i buy one of those little pen sized ones? i'm trying to to get too much gear, but as you said, better safe then sorry.
So i take the old, and possibly ruined rom chip off of the old board and pop it onto the new board. and if the old rom is not shorted by something, it should work?
Here is an image of everything, i couldn't find a number starting with a G on the boards, but did notice these small qr codes on the drives themselves.
Hi,
So I recently built a new computer and use the old usb breakout pci slot thing to determine how to wire the new board (instead of the manual, cause i'm a moron)
Long story short, the wires were backwards, so when I plugged in my HD to this the power wire sent power to the ground of the HD...