--- Jeffrey Watts [email protected] wrote:
Any reason that you can't just go to Surplus Exchange (or eBay, or Craigslist) and spend $5-10 to get a new motherboard?
Not having the $5-$10 to spare is most of it right now. Maybe after I get that "financial stimulus" check from the I.R.S.
Not wanting to waste a whole working PC just because the PS/2 ports are shot is still part of it though. Surplus Exchange won't even consider taking it for free, meaning its going to cost money to get it recycled, and sneaking it into a landfill is just right out.
However, there is still that part of me that says "onboard ports eventually wear out, so *this will happen again*", so I have an interest in seeing if there's a "no-solder" option for recovering from bad onboard motherboard ports.
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