Be sure to push on the empty sockets during this test too. Apply
pressure from the top, sides and with a bit of a twist to see if you can
either reproduce the short or eliminate it.
On 7/3/2012 11:26 PM, Zitt Zitterkopf wrote:
> get some aligator clips on your meter.... attach it to the 5V/gnd test
> points.
> Gently flex the board. if the short disappears... I’d try to isolate
> it to an area of the board... then begin looking for shorting pins and
> such. both sides of the board.
> I’m guessing you’ve either got pins shorting together somewhere.... a
> metal “shaving” shorting the lines... or legs of a transistor
> “twisted” to a close short.
>
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