days after my years warrenty ended on my laptop. it completely stopped working only showing power light when turned on.
a few months later (yesturday) i decided to give it one last chance and read up about the problem. found some info that the nvidea graphics GPU tends to overheat and cause a BGA failure (heating up and cooling down breaking the solder joins).
So i wrapped the main board in foil and cut out a square where the chip is, and stuck a blow torch to it for about 20 seconds. this will melt the solder and let it set again. Now my baby is working fine again! although i need a harddrive for it, but i can use knoppix for it for now.
Now im thinking about having a go at old hardware that ive had problems with.
a few months later (yesturday) i decided to give it one last chance and read up about the problem. found some info that the nvidea graphics GPU tends to overheat and cause a BGA failure (heating up and cooling down breaking the solder joins).
So i wrapped the main board in foil and cut out a square where the chip is, and stuck a blow torch to it for about 20 seconds. this will melt the solder and let it set again. Now my baby is working fine again! although i need a harddrive for it, but i can use knoppix for it for now.
Now im thinking about having a go at old hardware that ive had problems with.
. keyboards dodgy screen webcam isnt working.. but other than that!
. i guess im going to have to remove the chip and do the resolder fix on it