Actually just tried that, but still not ohmmeter not seeing any connection to 2 pins. There are 2 large chips which have no visible pins, so I won't be able to move them.
Just soldered on the wires, so my next email will be either extremely happiness or extremely sad...
Quoting William Wilson <spamBeGoneCRISspam
clemson.edu>:
{Quote hidden}> I've had some luck with just reflowing the solder between the board
> and connector on USB drives.
> I've also had luck moving the memory chip over to an identical
> working USB drive (thumbdrive that is)
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> Cris Wilson
> Information Resource Consultant
> College of Architecture, Arts, and Humanities
> Clemson University
> 864-656-6081
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