Re: OT: Reflowing GPUs and the fruit company (was Re: Resurrecting integrated circuits by cooking them.)

2019-07-29 Thread Jerry Weiss via cctalk
On 7/28/19 8:33 PM, Jay Jaeger via cctalk wrote: On 7/28/2019 4:24 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 7/28/19 1:02 PM, Jerry Weiss via cctalk wrote: This method is not limited to "vintage" components. My MacBook Pro 2011 fails dues to its (famous) problem with the discrete AMD GPU

OT: Reflowing GPUs and the fruit company (was Re: Resurrecting integrated circuits by cooking them.)

2019-07-29 Thread Ray Arachelian via cctalk
Yup, I've had this issue too and it does come back every so often. The first time it lasted nearly a year. The second time, it lasted about 9 months. At some point it will fail to work, or I'll wind up actually damaging the chip and then it won't work anymore. Come to think of it, my very first