On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 01:13:54PM -0800, Thomas Johnston wrote: > > Does anyone have any suggestions about how to identify the damaged > component? And perhaps where to get a replacement part? >
Those parts are surface mount. Assuming you find the right diode, capcitor, resistor, whatever for that damaged part, you will probably throw a bunch of heat into the board with your iron and damage another part. I suggest going to ebay and trying to buy another mother board there. I haven't even seen a schematic for a motherboard. You could go to the dell outlet, buy another 1500 and use your current system for parts. I only see a 1520 on the outlet site at the moment though. Maybe it uses the same board. Although, there are some people who are really good at soldering that can do it. I live next to Metro Electronics in Sac. I haven't seen SMT parts, but it doesn't mean that they don't have it. I have a personal articles policy on my laptops for about thirty bucks a year that covers this sort of stuff. brian -- Brian Lavender http://www.brie.com/brian/ "There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." Professor C. A. R. Hoare The 1980 Turing award lecture _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
