i just hacked the trace bc i only have a soldering iron, if i had some hot air tools, then i would have removed the resistor. i usually dont do SMD work for recreation or for work. Thru-hole is a lot easier. not to mention, these ua5 mainboards are very very very small. they werent really designed to be repaired. if you have one go bad i will bet that edirol will just replace the whole board. these days it is more cost effective to just replace the boards than to pay a tech to troubleshoot them.