Fixing Bad Risers

[siforek]

It used to be pretty typical to get 1/3 or even half bad risers. These days I don't know if I've just been lucky or if their quality is just getting better. Either way we've all had a few bad risers & will continue to, specifically the PCI-E 1X riser board:


This one isn't actually bad, but you can see how the top-right pin isn't as good.

It takes longer for my soldering iron to heat up than to do the fix:

Nothing fancy, just add a little more solder(I use Kester 63/37) & I also clip/shorten the 2 larger pins & add some heat shrink:

This helps on motherboards like the ASRock H110 Pro BTC+ where the 1x/PCI-E ports are closer together.

I started doing this on just a couple bad risers I had but now I do it to every one as a precaution/preventative. As for the 16x riser adapter I've been fortunate not to get any bad ones, however if I ever do I'm sure a similar fix would suffice

Anyway, hope this helps someone that might otherwise toss their bad risers

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[Set Ready Go]

Heatshrink nice idea!

[Tmdz]

All of my bad risers have been on the x16 pin side, usually they got a little sloppy on soldering. 
So I take my knife and run it between the pins to knock any bridges that may have happened.

[siforek]

All of my bad risers have been on the x16 pin side, usually they got a little sloppy on soldering. 
So I take my knife and run it between the pins to knock any bridges that may have happened.

Nice! Breaking bridges is easy. I'll remember that if/when I get one like that. Thanks!

[MFahad]

What is the question here? Are you just posting easy fix jobs that everyone knows how to do? Well, thanks, been there and rebuilt entire systems, that is what we do here in crypto land, because we learned and did what we had to do. It is not rocket science and anyone here can handle doing this on there own. But, next we need easy DIY stuff, we know where to find .

[Tidsdilatation]

These fucking risers... I order mine from china, that means the delivery time is about 4 weeks. About 2 out of 10 are broken on delivery. Now i order large quantities only becourse i count on some of them being broken. Seems like im not the only one

[siforek]

These fucking risers... I order mine from china, that means the delivery time is about 4 weeks. About 2 out of 10 are broken on delivery. Now i order large quantities only becourse i count on some of them being broken. Seems like im not the only one

I like these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B072XCSGZZ

What is the question here? Are you just posting easy fix jobs that everyone knows how to do? Well, thanks, been there and rebuilt entire systems, that is what we do here in crypto land, because we learned and did what we had to do. It is not rocket science and anyone here can handle doing this on there own. But, next we need easy DIY stuff, we know where to find .

There is no question. Yes I posted an easy fix in hopes that it could help others that may not know how to do it. Glad to hear you're the crypto God of rig building. Feel free to contribute something helpful yourself without the ego please & thanks