First, clip off that GE battery before it leaks. That thing is a ticking time bomb.

If you don't want to repair it yourself, someone else might be able to.

That board looks salvageable to me, though a couple closer pics of the common corrosion areas would help make that determination.

Personally, i prefer using original boards because there's a ton of information and support (especially) for that mpu.

They're solid boards once gone over by a seasoned tech. I'd send it to any of pinside's selection of professional circuit board techs and have them fix it for you.

I second forceflow's suggestion, btw. Cut that battery off the board asap.

Good luck, and congrats on the Paragon!

Replace both sides of the connector and pray that short was the 5V to ground and not the 43V to 5V

I think it did. 43v is a 0.1" away from +5vdc. Corrosion gets between the pins and it starts arcing until the board burns. Bally screwed up here. It should be a space between the 12v and 43v connectors pins. There is room on the connector, but they didnt do it that way.

Usually this is not too catastrophic of a failure. U15 tends to go first and hopefully it took the 4amp fuse out with it. A lot of times when J4 is burnt like that, U15 will have a hole exploded out of it.

I would check all the voltages at the driver board. If it looks good there, you can safely plug in a new MPU board. Obv redo MPU J4.

You will need crimpers to make a new J4 connector.

Send in that board to someone (like maybe barakandl) and have it cleaned up, repaired, and battery replaced with NVRAM.

Cut that battery off before mailing it out.