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iRiver H320 board damage - long screw in wrong hole :(

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7fathoms:
Greetings, I'm new here.

I swapped out the HDD and upgraded with a 32GB compact flash card, it worked all fine and dandy until I put it back together -  I stupidly put one of the two long screws into a hole meant for a short screw. The screw bit into the board and went across two of the circuit tracks, now the player is dead. It was absolutely gutting  :-[

Does anyone have any experience of this, or if it is repairable, or does anyone have a board they want to part with?

saratoga:
Clean it out and see if you can prevent the hole from shorting out the circuit board.

7fathoms:
Thanks for the reply.

I'm unsure whether I have shorted out the tracks or broken a track - does anyone have a photo of this part of an undamaged board?

Also does a short on the board usually result in a fried component somewhere?

saratoga:

--- Quote from: 7fathoms on March 09, 2015, 03:00:55 PM ---I'm unsure whether I have shorted out the tracks or broken a track - does anyone have a photo of this part of an undamaged board?

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Since those are through-holes, theres probably not much there to be damaged.  I would try and see if I could unshort it, and if that fails, buy a new player.

[Saint]:

--- Quote from: 7fathoms on March 09, 2015, 03:00:55 PM ---I'm unsure whether I have shorted out the tracks or broken a track - does anyone have a photo of this part of an undamaged board?

--- End quote ---

Why yes, yes we do.
We have high resolution* scans available on our wiki, in the IriverInfo page:
Front
and,
Back



--- Quote from: 7fathoms on March 09, 2015, 03:00:55 PM ---Also does a short on the board usually result in a fried component somewhere?

--- End quote ---

It is largely impossible to give a definitive yes or no answer here, as there are a lot of variables to consider.
Unfortunately the best I can offer is "possibly".


[Saint]

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