In my case it was the 3 solder pads and a single pin on the chip. So Now you should know where on the board you are going to be soldering to. In the End I was able to solder to one solder pad, one ground pad (connection point for the USB), one trace and one pin on the Chip. Wiring stright to the chip is not advised because it bypasses all the voltage conditioning and protection on the board but in this case, we just needed it to work for a few minutes and it was OK to do so. I was Lucky that the missing Pad was for the +5 volts so I just found the same PIN on the small chip. Expand the Disk Drives category to see all the drives plugged into your computer. Right-click Start and select Device Manager. To be sure, reinstall the disk drivers and check if your files can be accessed again. Then I started probing around the main Chip on the board to see if I could find continuity. It could be that your computer’s drivers are corrupted. ![]() If that doesnt work, then the trace is on an internal layer of the board and all I could do is get the tip of the multi meter probe onto a tiny section of copper. If you are lucky, the trace on the board is on the top layer, then you could just scrap off the solder mask and solder a wire to the trace. Also, you can look online for any information about the chips on the board. If the solder pad is Not in contact (which one of mine was not) then you need to break out the Multi-meter to start probing around the board. Are the solder pads (little copper pads) for the USB connector still accessible? If they are then you are in great shape and you will be able to just solder jumper wires from the USB connector to the Solder pads on the board.
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