How a dead GFX Card is made alive professionally

[Kaapstad]

Just found this very interesting article over on OC3D

http://forum.overclock3d.net/showpost.php?p=813326&postcount=1

 

[wazza300]

yeah was gonna say reballing,something to do with the non lead solder being weaker

also the bane of ps3 ylod

 

[opethdisciple]

Hmm interesting. Would be gutting if after all of that, it still didnt work!

 

[Silent_Scone]

You don't need one of those to reflow a gpu, done hundreds of laptops with my rework station, not half as fancy as that lol.

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/111519004003?_mwBanner=1

 

[wazza300]

You don't need one of those to reflow a gpu, done hundreds of laptops with my rework station, not half as fancy as that lol.

re solder a new cpu socket on my mb then I have a new socket ready/waiting

 

[IceShock]

That's great to see, iv oven baked a few cards back to life in my time, but they die out again after a few months, then you gotta do them again and again till it ether becomes annoying or its dead.
Nice to see it done properly though!

 

[Silent_Scone]

There's definitely a knack to it. Took me three months to get it right.


You need one of these for the back http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/271641321229?_mwBanner=1


Frustrating as < rude > putting it back together to see you've missed two points

 

[Pelinox]

Now show us how to replace a CPU socket, so those bent/missing pins don't mean a dead board

 

[Silent_Scone]

Lol that's what warranty is for

 

[wazza300]

warranty don't mean **** if its asus,gigabyte will fix bent pins though

 

[setter]

If anyone can solder an ivybridge/haswell cpu, id be interested in that. Seems intel cba to do it.

 

[wazza300]

superglue it !!

 

[setter]

superglue it !!

Would probably be an improvement over the blu tac that intel use.

 

[Disco_P]

Pretty cool, but it is only a fix for one problem.