[Gllug] Diagnosing hardware faults

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 03 Dec, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> 

> 
> Apropos of motherboard repair, do you know if they "re-ball" the chips 
> with leaded solder or simply "re-flow" them with what is already there. 
> I could really use a repair company that can do proper re-balling at a 
> reasonable cost!
> 
> Roger

   They can do either. They have a very expensive rework station that can
remove a single chip, they can then clean up, re-ball, optically align the
chip, and re-fit. There is a low percentage chance that it will fail,
perhaps because internal track layers have been damaged.

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