I am trying to fix a Rottendog WAV095 Audio Visual board for a friend. The 32-pin sockets were corroded and when I removed them I noticed a trace (or two) that is cut through under S4. I'm not sure if it is supposed to be cut as a factory mod or if in the past someone had tried prying out a chip but out it under the edge of the socket instead. It wouldn't be the first time I have seen either scenario. I've attached a picture the shows the suspect traces on the right side of the socket.

Is anyone familiar with these boards that could confirm how those traces are supposed to look? I can easily fix those two traces but I don't want to do that if they were meant to be cut. Schematics for this board would help.

Thank You

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Thanks for the responses. The sockets are for EPROMS and there are three in the set. If the D3 line is open that would certainly prevent it from working! It does seem to look like that may have been accidental but you never know and without an accurate schematic or another board as a reference it is hard to tell for sure.

There were two open traces. I was able to make two replacements and solder them on the top of the board. I use green wire wrap wire and try to bend them the same way so they blend in. Take a little more time but I think it is worth it. I also have to notch the ridge on the bottom of the DIP sockets where the wires are so the socket sits flat.

Now that the board traces are fixed it still needs to be tested. I'm going to try and get it back to my friend this weekend.

I'm still not sure about the ROM's for this though. It is supposed to go into a Congo. I found some ROM images on IPDB for this but there are 6 ROM's in the V1.0 set and a single V1.1 image on a larger EPROM. I'd like to get confirmation on what ROM's should be there so I could take care of that too.

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Thank You! I try to all my board repairs like that. In the meantime I have a DE MPU to finish and am starting on my first old System 1 MPU board to repair.