Laptop BGA reballing - Worth it?

[RedLine05]

I searched for inexpensive ways to fix my broken Ativ Book 8 motherboard, and I came across a repair method called ‘BGA reballing’. The process involves detatching the gpu or cpu using a very expensive tool then replacing the gpu or cpu dots with a reballing device. This process costs $100, and I need to go to a third party computer repair shop to get my laptop reballed.

Should I get my laptop reballed?

 

[iamacow]

Actually flux machines are like millions of dollars. you can buy smaller ones that use stencils to reball small things like CPUs and GPUs, but those are 100k each and need the stencil for that cpu. Hence why it cost you $100 to send it off for someone to do it for you.

If you want to be getto, just throw it in the oven @ 400 for a few minutes. That will heat up the soder enough for reball it.

 

[RedLine05]

Actually flux machines are like millions of dollars. you can buy smaller ones that use stencils to reball small things like CPUs and GPUs, but those are 100k each and need the stencil for that cpu. Hence why it cost you $100 to send it off for someone to do it for you.

If you want to be getto, just throw it in the oven @ 400 for a few minutes. That will heat up the soder enough for reball it.

Dude, I don’t think you are understanding my post.
There’s a computer repair shop that reballs my laptop for $100.
I don’t need to buy tools, I just need to take it to the reapir shop.

 

[rgd1101]

what the spec of this Ativ Book 8 ?

 

[RedLine05]

what the spec of this Ativ Book 8 ?

Its a 3 year old laptop.
-i7 4700HQ
-GT 750M
-8GB DDDR3l ram
-256GB SSD
-1080p matte screen
-and a keyboard that has a broken metal holder so it needs to be diy replaced for $32

 

[rgd1101]

The laptop worth a lot more then $100 if you fix it. so yeah it worth it.

 

[TJ Hooker]

Wouldn't you have to basically tear your laptop apart to get just the motherboard out? Maybe that's not too big a deal with that laptop, idk.

 

[rgd1101]

Wouldn't you have to basically tear your laptop apart to get just the motherboard out? Maybe that's not too big a deal with that laptop, idk.

from OP "I need to go to a third party computer repair shop to get my laptop reballed."

 

[dudeman509]

Seems like a decent laptop - one that is still pretty relevant.

If it were something like a lowly $300 Pentium from Walmart, I'd say toss it.

 

[USAFRet]

"reballing" only works if that is the actual problem with it.
Taking the CPU off and doing a $100 repair does nothing if it was some other fault entirely.

 

[iamacow]

Getting the CPU off is the easy part, I doubt that shop has the tools to actually reball it.