Resistor lifted off drive board (D2C)

[wilson735]

Ok so a damaged Wii came in today for repair. Seems that the customer was trying to solder to a resistor (God knows why) and he lifted the resistor off of the drive board completely. The resistor is shown in the picture below. Note that that is not a picture of the drive I have in my possession, the drive I have is missing that resistor. He wants me to buy another drive for him, and I told him I would, but is there a way to fix this drive? I could use it for a spare..
What do you guys think?

http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/8194/4e055aa7zv1.jpg (http://img370.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4e055aa7zv1.jpg)
http://img370.imageshack.us/img370/4e055aa7zv1.jpg/1/w640.png (http://g.imageshack.us/img370/4e055aa7zv1.jpg/1/)

[Funkwheat]

Does the drive not work at all without it, or what? Some of them seem to be more important than others. Anyway, you could try one of two things. One would be to just ghetto rig it and blob some solder over where the resistor was, to bridge the connections...That MAY work, depending on the importance of the resistor (also could potentially damage other components on the board, depending on the importance of having resistance there)

The other, perhaps better way, would be to check the resistance of that resistor by measuring one from another drive with a multimeter (set to ohms of course) then buying a similar sized surface mount resistor like that (could probly get it from mouster.com or something for cheap) and soldering that on. It's tiny, so you'll probably need tweezers to do that.

Whatever you do, let us know how it works out. Either of those ideas could theoretically work.

[wilson735]

Ok so I figured out that the resistor was about 221 Ohms. I soldered in a regular old resistor and it worked like a dream. I also tested it for about 10 hours before closing up the Wii just to be sure.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2439/image120de3.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image120de3.jpg)

[Funkwheat]

Haha yeah that'll work too. A resistor is a resistor is a resistor (within reason of course)..doesn't necessarily have to be another surfacemount.. Like I said, shorting it out completely may have worked too, but the way you did it is a slightly less ghetto way. Good job man and thanks for sharin the success story. ;)

[gazzaman2k]

Ok so I figured out that the resistor was about 221 Ohms. I soldered in a regular old resistor and it worked like a dream. I also tested it for about 10 hours before closing up the Wii just to be sure.

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/2439/image120de3.th.jpg (http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image120de3.jpg)

SMT meets oldskool lol nice work :) atleast you saved the wii