wiped disk - no longer bootable

Ralf Mardorf silver.bullet at zoho.com
Wed Jul 10 07:08:35 UTC 2019


On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 19:08:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>That mobo was simply not repairable because my hot air tools were
>burning the foil off the board on one side while trying to telegraph
>enough heat to the other, inaccessable side of the board to free the
>defective caps.

It's possible to heat both sides, unfortunately the VIAs of multilayer
PCBs tend to be allergic to too much heat, so it's a game of pure
chance.





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