How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
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Re: How I resurrected my MacBook Pro by putting it in the oven
#2You might want to get rid of that Vertex 2 as soon as reasonably possible. It has an issue where at some point when switched on or resumed from sleep it will corrupt all your data and refuse to boot. Some have a different bug where it will silently corrupt some of your data and the only way to find out is by the HDD light being on for longer than usual. Back up your data and get rid of it. I had it happen to me twice (warranty replacement after the first one, but then second one did it too). OCZ died as a result of this. Save yourself before it's too late.
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#3How does this work? Is the idea that there's a loose chip, and you're reflowing the solder to re-attach it?
Relatedly, one of my friends successfully revived a bricked playstation by heating up the motherboard with a heat gun.
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#5How does this work? Is the idea that there's a loose chip, and you're reflowing the solder to re-attach it? Relatedly, one of my friends successfully revived a bricked playstation by heating up the motherboard with a heat gun.
As far as I know, 170C is not quite hot enough to melt solder. It would need to be around 200C.
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#6Or you can use a hot air gun if you have one. Reflowing does work wonders.
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#7Do NOT try this with a microwave oven.
If you do, there will be a bad smell, and lots of sounds and lights, and you will not read Hacker News today.
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#8How does this work? Is the idea that there's a loose chip, and you're reflowing the solder to re-attach it? Relatedly, one of my friends successfully revived a bricked playstation by heating up the motherboard with a heat gun.
Yes this is exactly that: solder reflow (on which chip is the real question).
Note that on some chips (CPUs in particular) reflow soldering is the only way to solder them.
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#9Reminds me of my first Raspberry Pi. It was from the first batch, and only worked if I gave it a blast with a hairdryer. Once it warmed up it booted fine, but if I turned off the hairdryer it would turn off after about 30 seconds.
At the time it was about a month wait for a new one to arrive, so I did a lot of initial Pi discovery with a hairdryer.
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