Massively painful iBook soldering hell — #3

Post #3 by Mike Richardson

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Hardware
Post Date	Fri, 25 Sep 2009 - 09:12
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/massively-painful-ibook-soldering-hell.18656/

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The speaker cable isn't superglued in, it just clicks in with a tight fit (male connector). I've done the same as you - but in my instance just the red and white cables came out.
What you've done is yanked the entire male + female connector out, leaving the bare motherboard connector pins more visible. I'd just push the entire thing back down and it should be OK, assuming no pins etc were damaged. Not worth using hot glue etc. as it should be a snug enough fit.

JB

I know the cable isn't actually superglued in - that was sarcasm because the cable was so difficult to remove.

Look very closely at the picture - the motherboard connector pins have lifted slightly away from the motherboard.

If I use a toothpick to press down on the leftmost pin (the one to the right of the "4"), the right speaker sound works again. It looks like it's lifted off the board. However, I don't know to what extent it's lifted.