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>A friend had his laptop's chipset reballed there Sounds like he got scammed. Reballing only is a temporary few months at the most fix. Its not the pcb-bga con
by rasz_pl 12y ago
>A friend had his laptop's chipset reballed there
Sounds like he got scammed. Reballing only is a temporary few months at the most fix. Its not the pcb-bga contact that fails, its the silicon-bga package that has the problem. Reballing heats up whole chip and by accident reseals broken solder joints directly under the silicon. Those joints will crack again because NVIDIA used bad glue that gets plastic under heat stress.
The only way to fix bad Nvidia GPU is to replace it with a brand new one from the fixed batch with new glue formula.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjmBv6nvUOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjmBv6nvUOM
- bobbles 12y agoScammed unless he knows this and just wanted the machine fixed to at least recover everything
- userbinator 12y agoWorked well enough, he didn't mention any problems and I heard he'd sold the laptop over a year later. The reball was ridiculously cheap too.