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[Greco101]

dammit.

I was modding one of my external hdds and decided to put a mini fan in it. During the soldering, it decided to come in contact with this TINY brownish rectangle.

except smaller.

I got the solder away from it... finished soldering the fan... and hooked it up. Uh oh. No lights, no noise, no spin. &@*!

I take it back out there and noticed some solder was linking both ends. Trying to get that away, the whole damn thing attached itself and came off. NOW IT WORKS?! Any idea what that thing is for? There will be no way for me to solder it back because it tweezers will be too big. Will it cause any problems?

Help? Ideas? Guesses?

[D1337]

You bridged it, which usually shorts out what ever your using.
But it didnt for you, so you got uber lucky. The HD will be fine and shouldnt have any problems.

[Spawn-Inc]

The HD will be fine and shouldnt have any problems.

i don't know if i would say that. the chip or w/e it was is obviously ment to be there. if you still have it try and get a small small set of tweezers or maybe even a cheap pair and cut the tip small. clean up the solder points on the board by using a clean solder tip and try to remove as much solder as possible. if you can take out your solder tip try gettinga replace ment and file it to a fine fine point, like a pin. then just carefully try to solder it back in place. if you have any flux get a pin and apply a tiny amount to each end and add a small amount of solder.

how small is the chip about 1mm by 2mm?

[Greco101]

It was literally about the size of a big flea lol. Ill take pictures of it

[D1337]

I thought he got the solder off of it.
"Trying to get that away, the whole damn thing attached itself and came off. NOW IT WORKS"

by that did you mean the solder was attached to the chip and both came off?

[Greco101]

yep...

This picture even makes it look bigger lol.

[D1337]

you can do three things.
If you have a steady hand, attempt to solder it on.

Leave it off and hope nothing happens, i suggest using raid to backup.

If its new and you cant see what you modded, RMA it saying it laying in the protective anti-static sleeve. (cheap, but it was an accident)

[Spawn-Inc]

is that one of those giant pencils??? jkin, i saw try to get point tweezers and to to solder it back on.

any one of those^^^

[D1337]

I dont think its the tweezer size, the thing thats gonna make it hard is that solder will blob up, and pull a little more then needed down with it.

I suggest you try to cut a strip of solder as small as possible then solder it on, because if you do it straight off the spindle youll get too much and bridge again.

[Spawn-Inc]

also find an extra or second soldering iron and file the tip down to a fine needle like point like i said before.