Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

It's really annoying if either side is loosing a signal
on your earphones. the classic annoyance since
the wealkman's era. twisting bring backs the signal so it means
something has loosen up. Worst it's not my headpone jack or
cord, it's on the unit itself.
So after 3-4 hours of gathering enough courage
and geek power lol I tried dismantling and fixing my
good old mp3 player/flash disk.


The pics...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...mp3-player.jpg
my little portable music buddy.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...ottom-part.jpg
uugrrhhh! it was tough but i got the bottom cover
removed. but can't seem to do anything
as the problem seems to be on the other
side of the circuit board.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...cuit-board.jpg
on the other side...
finally saw the problem and as i knew it
the other channel lost contact and needs reconnection.


http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...3-soldered.jpg
soldered it for good, hehehe.



http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y15...04-testing.jpg
tested it first before putting it back together. ....wow it's working!
YEHEY!!!!!!!

So there you have it.
My major geek-tweak for the week lol!

Cheers!!!

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

kuul, although i don't think i could do it... just the thought of putting a screwdriver near my fragile innocent mp3player... I'll probably loose it somewhere before it breaks anyway

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

Well, I'd taken it to the shop, but, if you can fix it, why not? :D

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GG!

*refrains himself of putting pictures of his soldered motherboard in his WoodPuter (c)(r)(tm)* :D

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

The people demand...
WoodPuter (c)(r)(tm)! WoodPuter (c)(r)(tm)! WoodPuter (c)(r)(tm)! :D

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

I think he already did post up pics of the Woodputer©®. I'd search and post a link, but I'm busy man with important things to do.

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

well he posted outside pictures and drawings of it, but not pictures of his soldered motherboard yet.

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as a co-founder of bu i demand pictures too!

(wasn't that heavy or what? :P)

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ahh some say just kick it might get it working again. well i usually caress it.

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Whether the people demand or not, beloved presidents usually ignore their people :) And I don't have such sentimental relations to my hardware, right now I just need to get a hand on that damned digicam.

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like we care how sentimental you are with your hardware. Honestly, we don't even want to know. Just clean it up, shoot some photo's, upload to our beloved server and pwn! :P

[kiddies voice on]
PLEASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSEEEEEEEEEEEE
[kiddies voice off]

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

oh my it sounds so sweet...mp3 player heaven,, LOL!
what's that digicam Pierre?

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

the woodputer
http://racc.bots-united.com/woodputer.jpg
the motherboard, screwed in a barbarian fashion
http://racc.bots-united.com/mobo-all.jpg
the sound amp, left part = amp, right part = knobs, in the middle is the RJ45 outlet (soldered too)
http://racc.bots-united.com/mobo-amp.jpg
I once destroyed the bottom resistor with my screwdriver, attempting to use it as an axe to unstick the CPU dissipator. Had to unmount every single piece in the puter to find it (it's about 2mm long). Then I soldered it back and here we go.
http://racc.bots-united.com/mobo-soldered.jpg

*bows to the audience*

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*standing ovation*

But you urgently need to clean that mobo :D
And that kb is a little too yellow too... :P

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OMG!!! that's awesome Pierre!!!
You should make it's own thread although I'm honored you
stick the pics here.

So how much hrtz does it has and how many days before it can open Micorsoft Word? LOL just kidding.

Re: Fixing my Mp3 Player...woah!
 

About word, thats a tricky question :P
If you have Word 95, it runs fast on any pc, but Word 2003 , takes a lot longer to load. I think you can make a formula of that:

Load time = Current year - Year version of Office * 1.5

Where loadtime is in minutes ;)

Ow, and you must put a 19 before Word 95-97

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well it's a modest 2.4GHz with 512Mb DDR and a shitty GeForce 4 MX, but that's enough to play HL2 just fine :)

Okay, not with all the fancy effects turned on.

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awesome! atelast for me. i'm still stuck with my 3 year old 1.6 p4.i thought it was a classic 486, hehe, duh.