PC Master Race

When I worked in cell phone repair, someone brought in a cell phone in similar condition and asked a similar question, all while seeming quite sincere.

At least they were honest; they explained it had fallen out of their pocket while mowing and gotten entangled in the mower blades. Not sure how they expected us to affect repairs, though. We declined as politely as we could and directed them to where they could buy a replacement.

Have you tried putting it in a bowl of rice?

It's dead.

At least for windows, Linux will probably run okayish.

It's just a flesh wound.

It looks like you're going to have to reconnect a couple of traces, but if you've got some magnet wire and a fine tipped iron you should be good to go. You probably don't need that bit on the left, it doesn't look important.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

If you have a soldering iron and a factory full of orphan children you can put it back together (the orphans must be children for the tiny hands)

How does one even accomplish this? Dropping the board alone wouldn't even do this, almost intentional

Yep, just dump some flex seal on it and it's good to go.

Probably easier to fix than performing certain brain surgeries.

That depends, are you using Windows or Linux? If it's Linux, you'll be fine.

I think that's actually just dirt. I recommend the sanitize cycle on your dishwasher to make sure it's clean.

This looks like a case for superglue!

You're going to need a lot of uncooked ramen, but it is possible.

That'll buff out

Did you try throwing it in the oven at it's highest possible temperature? Gotta reflow that solder and the board will magically come back together in one piece!

Which guide did you follow? I have some experience in motherboard trimming, but this one doesn't make sense to me. Cutting through the northbridge seems unusual and very hard to get working.

Looks like a very odd form factor. What kind of mainboard was that even?

you could make some cool coasters out of it