First post, by Cga.8086
I always had this question and i wanted to know if someone with experience can give me an advice.
Maybe someone that works with soldering or has a reflow / reball station
For example, i have a boxed Radeon 9800pro, that is not dead, but the card gives artifacts, lines (I can't remember if the lines are vertical or horizontal) on DOS as soon as you boot the pc the artifacts are visible on screen.
From what i understand it can be :
1) The GPU
2) One of the video memory chips.
I have no clue on how to identify if its the GPU or the memory, So lets suppose that i think it is a memory chip, it has 8 memory chips, square sized samsung.
My questions are:
1) Is it possible to remove the memory chips and replace them? are replacement vga memory chips available?
(i have a small soldering station that has hot air also)
2) Is it possible to remove 1 memory chip, and then test the card to see if that memory was the one that broke?
3) Is it possible to remove 2 memory chips, and test the card to see if any of those 2 is the one that broke?
4) is it worth the effort? fixeable or is not worth it?
