Is it possible to fix a fried motherboard?

[Anonymous]

lol I know this isn't really a question for this site but I know there are a lot of people who visit here so I was hoping there were some computer nerds like me on here is it possible I've taken some pics of two fried areas of board they look more corroded then fried tho one chip seems to have disconnected soldering point

[HungLikeAHorsefly]

Assuming the traces are still good (a big assumption), you'd have to clean it up, desolder the busted chip and solder down a new one without damaging anything.

It looks like there are quite a few resistors & caps underneath that corrosion - you'll have to pray those aren't damaged. Of course you could test those pretty easily. The housing on that oscillator looks bad, too.

[MrKinktastic]

I'd assume if the chip could be replaced or the worn out part soldered back together it may be fixable. That ones looking pretty dirty so its hard to see whats wrong though

[Anonymous]

depends on if the trace below it is fried, if not maybe you can clean and resolder , I d doubt if you can solder it correctly if you don't know how they are connected

[Asker]

I know how to solder kinda and there arnt any cut traces just fried chips

[Opinion Owner]

I would use a VMM to test the connection first to make sure it't all good

[YvanKarma]

If it is completely fried then no.

If it was just a capacitor, then yeah.

[Browneye57]

No.
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[up_64]

Depends how tech savy you are