Fixing a short circuit on an expansion card

"Visionary" related their problem to Bob thusly:

My scanman bus card has short... And I am looking one so I can still use my Logitech, does Logitech provide support for this? I have contact them by e-mail but no response was receive...

Then Bob thought a while and gave this general solution for all short circuited cards

Why not just un short it,
on modern cards shorts normally produce tell tale gold or silver tracks showing where damage occurred due to the short. Just get some sandpaper or wire wool, and rub off all those "damage report" tracks and it should work. Make sure you do the final rub down with wire wool with the card installed in your computer just so that all the tracks are gone. Turn the PC back on first as the power supply will make sure that all the tracks are visible. Any crackling or sparks or smell of ozone is just due to the card self checking after the damage report tracks have been cleared.


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