Thought this would come in handy If we need to extend cables......

Joe

http://warmcat.com/milksop/soldering.html

I just wonder how the braid doesn't pick up the solder you want to leave intact at each connection... I have improved my skill in micro-soldering in the past months and I recommend a needlepoint tip on the iron and a lighted magnifier, and most of all a steady hand. Works ok for me. This is not an offer to extend FFCs for anyone or repair a broken one. I am not good enough to trust myself with someone elses equipment yet.

Heard that...

The guide is kind of funny though. It gives us so humor while teaching some very good facts.

As for the braid not sucking up all of the solder... I have no idea. However I like Numbnuts approach alot more than a needle tip and a steady hand, because when you are rerouting cache or a motherboard (don't ask) or adding another memory slot to your computer, a steady hand is hard for me to bring up... But I have a plentiful supply of balls of iron . Otherwise I wouldn't be able to do the things above, build a battlebot, tear apart a LCD, ect, ect...

Umm, I know it said not to, but I must know, rerouting cache?

Yeah, I tried to do that on an old 500 Mhz computer last year. Didn't work too well. Not only did I fry that board and cpu but hurt my ego in the same process. On a better note, the addition of the memory slot did work though (when I got a new cpu and mobo ). All I had to do is reflash the bios on the mobo and done. That computer is now an 800 Mhz computer with 768MB of sdram (three 256 sticks) and I use it as a server.

With the ever falling prices on mobos and processors, why are you still in an 800 mhz? You can get 2ghz, and 1gig DDR for <$400 if you buy whichever mobo/processor combo is on sale at the time. I have a Fry's account so I have upgraded 3 times in the last 1.5 years. Now running 1.8 ghz Duron with 2 gig DDR, 2 200gig SATAs, and 2 120gig IDEs. Bought that entire setup, with the exception of the IDE drives and 1 gig of mem about a month ago. Now my wife has put me on credit hold with Fry's until I pay that off. I think what really set her off was my reasoning for buying the 2 SATA drives, I bought a mobo that supported it, so I had to buy some drives...

EDIT: I am aware that I have 640gigs of storage, but I also have every DVD in my collection now backed up, uncompressed. Oh yeah, forgot to mention the 8X DVD+RW, but to my surprise, Fry's doesn't carry a DVD+R over 4X, or a DVD+RW over 2X...

Now I am reading that Sony and Pioneer are about to release dual layer burners so you can store over 9 gigs on 1 DVD, which is how the movie guys fit so many extras + the movie on 1 disc. So my money was wasted on the burner on two fronts, no discs at speeds supported by drive, new drive about to be released.

Quite simple, this was just my server computer like I said, it does nothing but store 250 GIG's of anything I want and sometimes hosts a game or two. The mobo I got from a friend for about $25 and the processor with it. This is basically my experimental computer that I F*ck up all the time. This is why I now have a spare mobo/CPU lying around.

I myself have a toshiba laptop (desktop replacement). P4 moble, 1024MB ram, 60 Gig 7200 RPM, 64MB geforce 4. I love it. I take it everywhere, if you look at my before and after pictures in my gallery topic, It is the computer to the right of the Liquid video.