E-bay situation - question

[lxskllr]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: lxskllr

Originally posted by: datwater
No video means I could not even tell via BIOS or anything - it had to come all the way apart.

You could hook up an external monitor(I'm assuming this has a VGA out port) to check it out.

If the GPU is dead, then an external monitor wouldn't help either. You would still get no video output.

Doh!! I wasn't thinking. I r smrt, reely :^P

 

[SludgeFactory]

I'd probably ask for my money back, I'd be pissed that the guy either flat out lied (most likely) or was too lazy to confirm what CPU/RAM/HDD he was selling.

 

[SludgeFactory]

Originally posted by: isekii
What does it mean "reflow the chip" ?

BGA chips have an array of solder balls on the bottom, once they're placed on the pads of your circuit board, you send it through a reflow oven to melt the solder and form interconnects. In this case the interconnects were mechanically broken, and you'd be re-melting the solder to hopefully re-form the solder joints.

The techs who repair these things would have special rework stations with a lot more accuracy in delivering heat and re-aligning chips, and the cameras/optics to actually see what they're doing. A homebrew repair seems difficult at best, but if the pitch is relatively large, *and* you didn't get knocked very far out of alignment relative to your pads, *and* you can avoid damaging something else on the card with your heat application, I guess you have a chance. The surface tension of molten solder joints can self-align the chip to some degree, which is probably why this works at all. But if your solder bumps are offset on the pads by 1 row or something before you melt them, obviously you're screwed. Good luck.

 

[alkemyst]

once you dicked with it, it's yours.

 

[datwater]

I mailed the seller early yesterday to express my dissatisfaction in the discrepancy in the specs. I told him everything that I did - I have no desire to be dishonest or try to screw the guy. He never mailed me back.

I mailed him late yesterday and told him the only thing I was really concerned about was that the CPU was not as advertised. I asked him to consider refunding the difference between the price of a T2400 and a T7100 - I have an e-mail from him before I purchased the item stating he was sure it was a T7100 or T7200. I still have not heard from him.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: datwater
I mailed the seller early yesterday to express my dissatisfaction in the discrepancy in the specs. I told him everything that I did - I have no desire to be dishonest or try to screw the guy. He never mailed me back.

I mailed him late yesterday and told him the only thing I was really concerned about was that the CPU was not as advertised. I asked him to consider refunding the difference between the price of a T2400 and a T7100 - I have an e-mail from him before I purchased the item stating he was sure it was a T7100 or T7200. I still have not heard from him.

it's only been a day....ebay <> walmart.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: alkemyst
once you dicked with it, it's yours.

Yup, agreed. But that doesn't mean he can't get a partial refund for receiving lesser hardware specs.