I wonder if there could be another issue. I remember we had a hardware guy once where I worked who took apart a broken cable modem prototype, found that one of the traces was thinly broken. Traces are the lines on a printed circuit board, Vias the circles. He used an emory cloth to strip the protective green coating, then a small narrow heat gun to melt the trace slightly and bring it together.
If OP had a broken trace in there, then heat might have fixed it. Then again, OP's reasoning is probably better as I am not a hardware guy.
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I wonder if there could be another issue. I remember we had a hardware guy once where I worked who took apart a broken cable modem prototype, found that one of the traces was thinly broken. Traces are the lines on a printed circuit board, Vias the circles. He used an emory cloth to strip the protective green coating, then a small narrow heat gun to melt the trace slightly and bring it together.
If OP had a broken trace in there, then heat might have fixed it. Then again, OP's reasoning is probably better as I am not a hardware guy.
Those traces under the green solder mask are copper (melting point ~1000°C/2000°F).
He may have added solder to fix the trace, but he didn’t melt the trace itself.
Thank you for explaining that, as you can tell I don't work with PCBs myself, and this was back in 2000.