Yeah I have wires on most of those nodes, and scattered around the board. There's a lot of computer slang, nicknames, abbreviations, that I'm just guessing at.
On my chip, pin 62 SLP5# is shorted to ground either by a jumper, or a dead resistor. I never found if anything else goes to that pin, to make a voltage divider, if's it's supposed to be a resistor. But then there is pin 84, also SLP5#. I think I soldered a wire onto p84, and a bunch more, but I haven't powered it up since. If that thing was a non-zero resistor, what's the chances it would burn out short ??
I know Vcore is switching, but now I have test leads on the outputs of all the VRMs for the CPU, and ram, and the other ones on the PCB.
I did put 1 on LRESET, pretty sure it was always low.
I'd like to get some chip clamps, thing's that clamp on top of a chip, with needles and breakout wires. I can't remember the name.
I de-stranded some 18 gauge wire, and it fits perfect on the pins, but I better find some insulated stuff in the box. I haven't tried soldering those strands, close to each other, I need to get some taped or glued down first, then 'i might have a chance of getting side by side pins
There's a lot of empty pads for parts around the 6776 chip, nothing looks dirty tho, like someone worked on it. It's definitely not wired the same as the 1 in that boardview.
Most of the big chips, probably have multiple Vcc, so yeah there's a lot to check, but on the whole, most of it seems to get power where it should be, or isn't shorted anyways. I downloaded as many datasheets as I could find so far, most are out there.
I need to attach some wires around the control chips of 1 of my ATX PSU's so that I can make a circuit to see the current it's delivering. My bench PSU would probably struggle with the LV high current loads.
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