Comments on: HOWTO: fix a G3 iBook with a “bad logic board” for 26 cents

By: fak3r

fak3r — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:19:53 +0000

@Tobias Coyote
Fantastic! Hope it works for a time mate, it’s it good to feel like you can make a difference in such an otherwise such small thing? Good on ya!

By: Tobias Coyote

Tobias Coyote — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:56:27 +0000

This worked! I used a ten and a twenty euro cent piece. And I’d been looking into buying a new computer!

Thanks.

By: fak3r

fak3r — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 23:59:13 +0000

@Vince
Easy, start here: Gentoo PPC FAQ and learn how to do a dual boot. If you’re not interested in Gentoo the guide still carries a good deal of relevant information. Here’s one for running a dual boot of OS X and Debian.

By: Vince

Vince — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:43:27 +0000

“I’ve run Linux on it for almost the whole time, even running a dual boot of OS X and Gentoo Linux back when I used this puppy on the job.”

PLEASE Link me to a site or anything that can explain to me how to do so. I’ve been wanting to do something similar forever but I’m a noob in macs. (I’m a pure PC guy)

By: gry planszowe

gry planszowe — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:42:36 +0000

Ciekawa strona, trafilem tu przypadkowo, ale od dzis bede wpadal czesciej, pozdro

By: Jay

Jay — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:34:12 +0000

You can also re flow the solider with a hot air gun. Usually refereed to as a Re-Work Gun. This is the tool that the service referb tech will do to fix the board again after that they mark it as a referb (and sell it as such).

This is not the only product that has this exact same problem. Red Ring of death and the ps3 failure is directly related to this exact same problem.

I have a bunch of “broken” routers that I have purchased off ebay that have this problem. A quick pass with the rework gun fixes it.

What you need to do is move the heat from the chip. This will fix the problem…permanent. Rigging a heat sink fixes it every time. Pay attention to airflow in your rigging. I had to do this with a IBM T30 to prevent the bad memory slot problem.

note: I have used heat shrink guns to do the same thing.. but I had to make a tip so I wouldn’t heat things I didn’t want to melt. (900-2300 degrees will ruin anything)

I have heard of people using toster ovens to reflow solider but I have never attempted doing this… but if you do a search on red ring of death you will find a fix by wrapping it with a towl…. that would make it hot enough for sure. .. but what else are you going to break in that process.

Hope this helps… Of course doing this is at your own risk.

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By: Stacey

Stacey — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:11:27 +0000

Think I’ll give this a try too…. Thanks for the idea.

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