Gonna be trying this out soon. My dad picked up this laptop years ago and I never bothered looking at it. I need a cheap laptop for my old car to check the ECM data tables, so I figure I'll try fixing this laptop before buying one. Worst case I make a broken laptop more broken haha
Thank for your comment. I think a hair dryer doesn't give enough heat to melt the GPU as it needs to remelt (but not completely melted, just little softened to make it reflow coupling on motherboard). Drop me any message if you have any other questions.
@@enage. In fact, we have to know why the GPU doesn't work, because this model of laptop has a fragile GPU, when the laptop runs too hot, its GPU unsticks from motherboard that it loses contact from motherboard. So we have to heat it to make motherboard softened (semi-melted) and the GPU re-sink in on motherboard so that to re-connect its pins to motherboard.
Gonna be trying this out soon. My dad picked up this laptop years ago and I never bothered looking at it. I need a cheap laptop for my old car to check the ECM data tables, so I figure I'll try fixing this laptop before buying one. Worst case I make a broken laptop more broken haha
Good luck!
do these laptops take sata ssd's or i need ata to sata converter ?
Thanks for you question. This is a very old laptop, I think you can connect SSD to it but you need a converter to help.
can i use a hair dryer as a heat gun? or is a bad idea
Thank for your comment. I think a hair dryer doesn't give enough heat to melt the GPU as it needs to remelt (but not completely melted, just little softened to make it reflow coupling on motherboard). Drop me any message if you have any other questions.
@@bricoxia should I use flux to reflow? or it's not necessary
Thanks
@@enage. No need, just hot air to heat it. You are welcome.
@@enage. In fact, we have to know why the GPU doesn't work, because this model of laptop has a fragile GPU, when the laptop runs too hot, its GPU unsticks from motherboard that it loses contact from motherboard. So we have to heat it to make motherboard softened (semi-melted) and the GPU re-sink in on motherboard so that to re-connect its pins to motherboard.
@@bricoxia it worked! I used a hair drryer and the conputer works like it sharp
Thank you so much