Oh great, reballing a chip. I've seen that done. Given that I have
backup I just don't think it's warranted to do that. Poor little A31.
It had a good life, though!
Thanks George
On 11/30/12 22:13, [email protected] wrote:
Yes. A very well-known problem.
If the stripes and odd colours are all that you're getting, the GPU
chip became unsoldered.
If you're getting weird letters/symbols when you attempt to access
BIOS, that's VRAM corruption.
You'd need a replacement board regardless...not too many people would
have the proper stencils to reball an A31/p GPU.
Good luck.
Cheers,
George
-----Original Message-----
From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]>
To: Thinkpad Users Group <[email protected]>
Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:04 pm
Subject: [Thinkpad] A31 failure
So my wife's A31 did something sad yesterday. It's nine+
years old so it isn't unexpected, but I think it's dead.
When powered up, there are vertical stripes of various
colors, then the screen becomes white from the bottom up.
I had a backup A31 so this isn't exactly a tragedy, but I am
curious if this is a known failure mode? I'm familiar with the
bad video ram problem, but this isn't it. I haven't poked at it
much--is it worth it, I wonder.
--STeve Andre'
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