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HP sold me a crappy high-end Pavillion laptop around 12 years ago with a GeForce chip in it that would unsolder itself due to poor thermals. The fix was to dis
by aetherspawn 3y ago
HP sold me a crappy high-end Pavillion laptop around 12 years ago with a GeForce chip in it that would unsolder itself due to poor thermals.
The fix was to disassemble the back of the laptop, mask around the GPU with tin foil, and hit it with a hair dryer on max setting for about 20 mins.
The fix would last like 3 months. Learnt it off some guy on YouTube who was such a hero.
- rasz 3y agoIn particular nvidia bump gate case it was microbumps cracking under thermal stress due to use of badly matched thermal coefficient of the glue securing the crystal. Defect was between gpu core and carrier package, not the BGA balls.