[Gllug] Diagnosing hardware faults

[Chris Bell]

On Fri 03 Dec, general_email at technicalbloke.com wrote:
> 
> On 03/12/10 08:02, Chris Bell wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >    
> 
> Cool, that's what I'm after, I'll give them call, don't suppose you know 
> the manager's name or how long they warranty their work for? The place 
> I'm using are quite cheap (relatively) but they only warrant their 
> repairs for 3 months which is about the length of time a re-flowing 
> tends to last!
> 
> Cheers,
> 

   You need to speak to either Balaji or Aziz. Re-balling does take some
time, but I do not know their full T&C.

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