wiped disk - no longer bootable

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 09 July 2019 13:18:25 Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:

> I'm in favour of using a mobo for around 10 years, actually my last
> mobo was borked after around 7 or 8 years. I've got the skills to
> repair broken hardware myself, let alone that a friend of mine has got
> way more skills than I've got and at work he has got special equipment
> at hand, such as e.g. hot air soldering. However, at some point,
> "borked" is literally for "borked" ;).

That depends on the mobo. I needed to shotgun the caps around the cpu on 
an IBM mobo a couple years back and discovered they were using a massive 
area of extra thick copper on both sides of the board for heat sinks to 
cool the caps. 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. Only a dip in a wave soldering machine would 
have freed those parts. IBM can afford one of those, but you or I can 
only dream of access to such a production device.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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