Recent content by BadLot

I do this at work every day... with a hot air gun and soldering iron. I wouldn't say forget about it, but its going to be VERY difficult. You can take the chip off, no problem. Putting the chip back on is another matter. When I do bga by hand I try to go for the small stuff. Correctly...

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Nope, tinned it right away. Not rubbing it against anything, unless a capacitor leg gouged it. Maybe the coating was paper thin.

Most "narcotic' painkillers that are prescribed are more acetaminophen and ibuprofen than anything else. +1 on the vicoprofen. You can take NSAIDs for a while without any adverse side effects as long as you aren't doing the full 2400mg every day. I've found that naproxen works better on muscle...

So I got this rework station on ebay. http://i21.ebayimg.com/04/i/001/1c/6c/e192_2.JPG Well after using it for two days, the soldering iron tip wore away. It went from a fine point to a stump. But that's not the worst part. I was happily removing some bga chips at about 400C and sat the...

ATI's agp driver implementation kinda sucks. I've had problems with dumbart before. It always likes to turn off AGP for NO reason. I'd rather have my system freeze so I can solve the problem than to have it default to off and not even know what is going on. Luckily you can now force AGP on in...

Yea, I guess I don't use the video in all that much. I have a firewire card for getting video off of my HV20. The tv is old so it only has S-video and the card will output that. Its a bit pricey but in terms of video cards I guess not that much.

So I guess I should forget about vivo then? I'm probably not going to overclock the card as I've had terrible luck with that and ati. The current x850 I overclocked like 6mhz and opened up the extra pipes. But I did this after it started screwing up in everything but windows and not enabling...

Pretty nice. I don't know if it has vivo. Does have outputs though. Anything comparable from nvidia?

So I'm on my second x850PRO vivo and it decides that its now going to freeze in every operating system from Windows to OSX. I've already sent this one back for RMA a year or 2 ago for the same problem. My geforce ti4600 from years and years ago is still working like a champ after laying on the...