Meant to say "Pizza Oven", of course. It is a pretty nice Black and
Decker that could take a 14 inch Pizza. I have only had one motherboard
that would not fit in it.
Ardell Faul
Computer Monitor Service Inc.
Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
10816 E. Mission Ave.,
Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
ardell@icehouse.net
509-891-5188
On 10/26/2011 10:43 PM, Ardell Faul wrote:
>
> I modified a stock Pizza over from WalMart. Added some thermocouple
> sensors and switches to control the top and bottom elements
> individually. For added feedback, I got some temperature sensitive
> plastic sticks and put a scraping of several different temperatures on
> the big ICs. The plastic turns color at predetermined temps, enabling
> me to gauge a more effective heating process. After a little
> experimenting with temperature and time settings, I can now claim about
> a 95% success rate. I also put a copper shim in place of the stupid
> blue rubber for better cooling of the video chip after the reflow.
>
> Ardell Faul
> Computer Monitor Service Inc.
> Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
> ardell@icehouse.net <mailto:ardell%40icehouse.net>
> 509-891-5188
>
> On 10/26/2011 6:15 PM, C. Michael Stone wrote:
> >
> > Ardell...what kind of equipment do you have to re-flow a motherboard?
> >
> >
> > Mike Stone
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ardell Faul <ardell@icehouse.net
> <mailto:ardell%40icehouse.net> <mailto:ardell%40icehouse.net>>
> > To: simplycomputers2 <simplycomputers2@yahoogroups.com
> <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>
> > <mailto:simplycomputers2%40yahoogroups.com>>
> > Sent: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 2:07 pm
> > Subject: Re: [Simply Computers] HP Pavillion DV8000-series laptop
> >
> > Is this a DV8000 or a DV9000? I have reflowed the motherboards on many
> > DV9000's to fix the no display-but-its-fine-on-the-external problem, but
> > I have never seen a DV8000.
> >
> > Ardell Faul
> > Computer Monitor Service Inc.
> > Ardell's Laptop and PC Repair
> > 10816 E. Mission Ave.,
> > Spokane Valley, Wa. 99206
> > ardell@icehouse.net <mailto:ardell%40icehouse.net>
> <mailto:ardell%40icehouse.net>
> > 509-891-5188
> >
> > On 10/26/2011 1:16 PM, Misha wrote:
> > >
> > > This customer's laptop is driving me nuts. Hard drive and display were
> > > dying, replaced the hard drive, reinstalled from a disk image,
> > > repaired Windows XP, it was working fine. Took me a while to get the
> > > replacement display as the supplier sent the wrong part first. Replace
> > > the display, the new display doesn't work. Double-checked with the old
> > > one, it was still functioning as well as before. Got the supplier's
> > > permission to open it up to check the cables, they were fine, so the
> > > supplier is going to replace it.
> > >
> > > So I put the laptop back together with the old display, and now it's
> > > not working. Display does nothing. Connected to an external monitor,
> > > that works, but the computer only gets as far as POST and the HP
> > > splash screen -- I can hear the hard drive spinning, the hard drive
> > > access light flashes for a while, then stops. The CD drive lights. No
> > > response to the keyboard, doesn't do anything else. No beeps. I swap
> > > out the RAM and make sure it's seated properly, same thing.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > >
> >
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