Kahenraz wrote on 2021-12-21, 23:47:
PcBytes wrote on 2021-12-21, 12:17:
Mmm, that 7200 repair was nice. Shame that I (very likely) threw my 9000 AIW away, would've surely loved to fix it using your techniques.
Please spread the word. If you're going yo throw these things away, there is probably someone here to who may be able to fix it or would otherwise be useful for practice.
For what it's worth, I'm not 100% sure if it was the caps. Oh, and not sure if I REALLY threw it away or just threw it into the closet and forgot about it completely. I said very likely because of the possibility of the RAM chips being dead, but not always the case.
I do remember soldering a few caps back but still had artefacting, so at that point it could have been BGA failure on the RAM, and I haven't had any card using BGA RAM ever come back alive after reflowing the RAM chips.
I'll look through my mountains of "trash" (in reality, it's just lotsa stuff - mobos, GPUs, MXM GPUs, and misc PCI/PCI-E/ISA cards) and check if I still have it and hopefully check up what's missing and what needs resoldering.
(believe me, I found cards I totally forgot about. One of them is a Winfast A6200 TD that I would love to see back in action after some repairing, knowing it has some short on the Molex connector.)
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