wiped disk - no longer bootable

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 19:08:21 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>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



-- 
pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-cornflower,,-pussytoes,-securityink}}|cut -d\  -f2
5.1.16.arch1-1
5.0.21_rt15-0
5.0.19_rt11-1
5.0.14_rt9-0
4.19.50_rt22-0