non-socketed CPU
Re: non-socketed CPU
There was a lot of track cutting underneath the motherboardIngoQ wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 3:38 pmI'm not that cofortable with bending up CPU pins. I am afraid, they might break. In the above picture, it looks like you found another way of isolating the CPU clock... did you cut a trace somewhere? I followed the CPU clock until it disappeared under U203, but did not find any nice solder points...

Bending the pins up is a little bit iffy, but you only need to lift it up enough to get stuff the circuit board get a wire on the pad underneath. Bending them up vertically once is normally okay, as long as you do not bend it a second time.
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Re: non-socketed CPU
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Re: non-socketed CPU
As a side thought...
Assuming you (or anyone) added a SMT socket for this plug in booster I am working on.. I wonder if the socket is the same size...
What I mean is, on my MMU RAM expansion board, I plug the headers on the outside of the pin socket...

I unfortunately found the CPU socket on the STE is different than the STFM MMU socket, in that the outer plastic is thicker and the pins do not align from the STFM socket to the STE socket. This likely means a SMT socket could be different again. So while I could develop a plug in booster to fit STE sockets.. it may not fit all STE's still
and be more problematical if SMT sockets are different again..
I would assume all the STE CPU sockets used are the same brand.. but they may not be.. I don't think they are marked either..
Assuming you (or anyone) added a SMT socket for this plug in booster I am working on.. I wonder if the socket is the same size...
What I mean is, on my MMU RAM expansion board, I plug the headers on the outside of the pin socket...

I unfortunately found the CPU socket on the STE is different than the STFM MMU socket, in that the outer plastic is thicker and the pins do not align from the STFM socket to the STE socket. This likely means a SMT socket could be different again. So while I could develop a plug in booster to fit STE sockets.. it may not fit all STE's still

I would assume all the STE CPU sockets used are the same brand.. but they may not be.. I don't think they are marked either..
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