@ifunxtreme, in my opinion this isn't a horrible repair; it actually looks quite doable as long as you have even moderate soldering skills. If this was my board, here's what I'd do.
First off, I'd start with the data lines. In this case you're fortunate that there are vias right next to the solder pads that give you an excellent place to solder to. Take a bare piece of 22 AWG wire and bend it at a 90 degree angle into an L shape. Put the short end of the L into the via just behind the two data lines. Lay the rest of the wire out to the place where the solder pads used to be. Solder the two wires into the vias, and don't be frugal with the solder. Tin the wire along the entire length, again being liberal with the application of solder. Here's a picture of where to put the wires, marked in red.
Next, carefully scrape away the solder mask (the green coating) over the area around the three ground pads and the three power pads as shown inside the orange boxes in this picture.
Use some flux and tin the areas you just scraped with a thin layer of solder.
Now, prepare the old connector by using the soldering iron and some flux to clean off the old pads from the contacts. Tin the bottom side of the two data lines with a fairly thick layer of solder and make sure the top of the other pins are all tinned lightly.
Next, use some good glue like epoxy or gorilla glue and apply it generously to the bottom of the connector, especially in the two spots that used to be connected to solder pads in the far corners. Keep the glue away from the pins you're going to solder; don't want to make the job any harder than it has to be.
You can choose to wait till the glue is set or just hold the connector in place while you solder; that's up to you and either way should work. At any rate, you'll want to flow a lot of solder all around the power and ground pins to reconnect all six of them to the scraped-off surface of the ground and power planes. Again, be generous with the solder; you want to both provide an electrical bridge to the planes as well as reinforcing it as a mechanical connection as well.
Finally, solder down the two data pins; assuming you've got a good coating of solder on the bottom side, you should get a decent electrical connection to the jumper wires you added. It might help to make the wires a little longer than the pin so it sticks out slightly and will give you a place to ensure a solder bridge between the wire and the pin.
Once you've let the glue set, you should have a reasonably secure mounting and a good electrical connection as well.
Give that a try and let us know how it goes!
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Chris M what motherboard is it? what are the markings/numbers on it? Any point of reference will help.
by oldturkey03
The exact model is a TP500LN-CJ035H
by Chris M
can you check your motherboard for any marking/identifier
by oldturkey03
how do you run the jumper wires?
by salamander4u2005
you need to find the traces that the pads was ripped from and run a copper wire
by daniel
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