Have you ever fixed your failing hardware yourself, /g/?
Bonus points for non-moving parts like RAM or gpu's
>>52121556
I repaired gameboy and GBA carts. and by repairing I mean soldering in a new battery.
Thats it.
I reballed my CPU
Repaired a broken off USB thumb drive by resoldering the connector to it. Then recognised that the fuses did not work anymore, bridged them and copied my data to safety.
I fixed my Xbox 360 by doing this trick where you intentionally overheat it for a minute then tighten the heatsink as a ghetto way of reflowing it.
I can't find the Youtube video for it anymore.
It sounds kinda like retarded BS but I actually got it to work again, and it lasted for another year of heavy use.
>>52121556
i have successfully destroyed 2 laptop CD/DVD players and a HDD and my play station 2
so yes i have a good experience with repairing hardware
I've fixed two receivers by replacing caps, about 5 mobos doing much the same and also a bicycle.
>tfw technologically inclined but engineering illiterate.
Bike was hardest to fix, couldn't figure out how to undo a bolt. Turned out wrenches are a thing.
By the time my hardware fails, it's more efficient to replace it. My machines are good for 10 years without hardware problems.
I'm also an automotive tech. Most of my tools don't even fit in a computer.
>>52125962
Have you ever programmed a car or sniffed CAN packets?
weld bios chip of a motherboard that was corrupt and put a new one.
When my old Phenom II started dying I quickly soldered myself a new one
Gotta love being gifted
>>52121556
I once fucked up some of my CPU teeth by mistake. I used a screwdriver to pull them back straight and right now I'm using it to write this msg.
accidentally broke my tv screen so i made a new one from aluminium foil and bits of string. it's been running perfectly fine for just over 6 months.
>>52126250
>CPU teeth
>>52121556
>>52121556
>Repaired instrumental cluster (microcontroller that displays car rpm/mileage/etc). (Solder fix)
>Repaired broken speaker (wire/solder)
>Repaired broken headphone (similar to above)
>>52126404
That's the literal translation from the proper term in my language. What's the proper term in English?
>>52126462
pins
>>52126491
thanks
added 1 more gb of ram to my acer 11 chromebook
just bought the little chip on amazon and soldered it in place, the motherboard is used in the c720 and has two more empty slots for it.
did a fresh recovery of chromeOS and it recognized the extra 1 gb right away
>>52125563
I did that to my first 360. It did work for a while afterwards but eventually I just had to replace it. The earliest batches of them were prone to that happening, but it's MS, so that's to be expected.
>>52121556
I recapped my motherboard.
All the large ones you see here were replaced along with all the rest of the same rating on the motherboard and it still worked up to the point where I replaced the machine.
It probably still works.
a little bit
my laptop completely broke and I got the same one and I have since
replaced the screen
added another stick of ram
added a built in webcam
added another network card (don't know how to use it)
added some extra wifi antennas
replaced the keyboard a few times
and currently trying to replace the trackpad because I spilled some wine on it and can't click
I want to learn more
>being so poor you have to fix up ram
I repaired my Xbox 360 controller by using 3 coins as a connection between the batteries and the controller (the battery pack was busted).
>>52126857
>being so illiterate you cant fix up ram
>>52126899
Why would i when i can just purchase a chip?
>>52126250
>cpu teeth
Are you Turkish?
>fuse on USB wireless adapter gets blown somehow
>solder a jumper around it
>it works again
Fixed my Linksys router by reflashing the system after a bad update, made my PSP run via USB power after I lost the battery and charger, wired a inspiron 1525 directly to a car battery after the charger shit itself, jumped IC pins until the broken amplifier for my AX 720 turned on, added a diode to the flash capacitor on a game camera so it would actually snap pictures, wired clicky buttons to my SNES controller when it wore out, shoved stripped USB cables into phones that were "broken" (100% dead battery) after samshit told me it would be a 100$ fix (they just needed forcefully charged up a little bit to actually accept a charge), plugged in my first computer build that wouldn't boot :P, and about 9001 car things.
>>52126413
>>52126783
Did both of these and baked a 8800 ultra i got on ebay for next to nothing a few years ago.
>>52121556
>bonus points for repairing non moving parts
In the late 90's my father took two identical 500MB drives, cleaned the garage of dust, and did a cold platter swap. Was able to recover some local businesses accounting info.
>>52121556
Fixed both of my old Crossfire Cards(HD6870)
a 120gig drive from Seagate(put on new chipset)
Several phones(most recently my Z2)
22" LG Screen(bad caps)
Old Set of 3 Way Speakers(RFT B6401)
Philips 32" TV
Gigabyte 990FX Mainboard
and a bunch more which i cant remember right now
>>52125563
That's similar to how people fix older Nvidia cards if they would artifact or not boot.
The solder or dies would crack and so people stuck them in the oven and they'd magically come back to life.
>>52121556
I do that everyday OP. It is called research and development.
Yep
>>52129428
What is this supposed to be a photo of?
>>52128241
>>52127442
Does this actually work?
I've got a dying hd 5870 that black screens when it gets hot, I'm hoping this would work.
Only tried it once before with a mobo but I forgot to take the battery out ;_;
>Fixed my headset when the wires became loose
>Fixed my sister's laptop when the charging port became detached from the mobo
both with soldering
Designed, specified and installed a steel frame and reinforced concrete underpinning when the gable end of my brother's house started cracking, after some ghetto ass builder knocked a crosswall out.
>>52121556
Many things. Though the only one I can readily find an image for a was resoldering a couple diodes on to the PCB of my old iRiver iHP-120. But that still had large enough components that you could fit a soldering tip between things.
I had to put my PCIX video card in the oven to re-flow it and it works great now.
i work at an apple repair shop so i fix shit all day
>>52126783
I'm curious, what symptoms does a mobo show when you know it just needs a cap replacement and not something more serious?
I replaced some blown caps on a TV last year that wasn't showing video. after doing all of them and re-doing a few it still never worked.
>>52132860
you mean you do PRAM resets, SMC resets, and wipe keychains all day
>>52129508
Clean it and reapply the thermal paste
>>52124722
Watched that on youtube wtf man.
>>52121556
Oh man blowing up ram like this is great fun, I raided university trash for this purpose
threw old gpu in oven, add thermal pads, works like new.
>>52133121
I did.
Temps dropped a lot but it's still dodgy.
