i can have a look at it, i'm doing pcb repairs for industrial
equipment
you may visit my webpage
cheers James
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Video Productions, Electronic repairs
U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl
Bayswater WA 6053
+618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132
http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas
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The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck
is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners
On 25/05/2009, at 19:53, Mark Secker wrote:
Just accidentally damaged my old G5 tower's graphics card, snapped
a capacitor (? certainly looks like a capacitor) off the board....
The component has two legs that pass through a plastic riser then
the legs are flattened out and the long bottom edges of the legs
are (or in this case WERE) soldered to the graphics card board the
component has simple come off the board along the join no visible
damage to the board or the component - looks like a simple job for
someone with the right kit and stable nimble fingers.
I can solder a switch, a pot, a transformer or even a valve holder
on a point to point wired guitar amp but this sort of delicate
tight packed with IC's and the like is a bit beyond my skill level.
Looking at new cards... Mac ROM ones cost more than the whole
machine's worth and the PC ones seem to have history of not being
reliable with the ROM flash (bricking the card seems to be more
common result than success if forum pages are to be believed)
If I recall correctly Stewart White, at Team Digital, is the only
one I can think of but don't know if he still does component level
work these days
any one else?
thanks
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