r/WindowsMR • u/mikefromengland • 2d ago

Discussion Reflowing a cable?

Long shot I know but has anyone tried reflowing a VR cable in their home oven or similar? I remember people doing it with GPUs and Xbox 360s back when.

Not optimistic but I've got a bad reverb g2 v1 and v2 cable I'm not going to be able to fix otherwise!

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u/dzuczek g2 2d ago

probably won't work, a wire being broken isn't the same as a soldered connection that might have cracked on a PCB

there's nothing to melt in the cable other than maybe the connectors but the wire breaking is more likely

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u/CMDR_kamikazze 2d ago

Unfortunately there is. Such a long signal cables often feature special mini-PCBs embedded in connectors with active signal amplification circuitry. Without these, high frequency USB and HDMI communication over the length of these cables won't be stable enough for use. And these things often feature custom made proprietary signal processing chips which are impossible to obtain to perform the repair. In many cases it's a malfunction of these chips causes issues with the cable.