Recent content by Grumpycat

Oh man, these suck. I've killed my fair share of electronics too, but luckily parts that can be replaced for cheap or stuff that would hit the garbage either way.

I guess that makes two of us. I even managed to damage the CPU and not lift the IHS. I don't know what they use but the CPU was preheated and it didn't even budge with a non sharp tool. That's why I went with a sharp one and damage it in the process, by which it didn't budge either. Yeah they...

After closer inspection in a day that I had enough sleep, I saw some copper in the CPU, seems a layer deep. That was it for this PS3, unless I find a donor board and the skills to reball and replace a CPU. Seems a better option to buy a used Slim. Thanks for the reply and you are correct about...

Hello, Why I did it (you can skip it if you want!): My brother had a PS3 Fat that overheated almost upon playing a game. Its summer but it would overheat even with the air conditioner on or in mildly hot days. I already had replaced the thermal paste once 3 years ago and 6 months ago, at those...

600C for about 5 minutes? Well it died on 400C for 2 minutes, or something else died, or i didn't connect something right which i doubt thats the case but not worth the time to disassemble and reassemble again as the gpu chip all it has for cooling is that metal thing(which name in english i...

Hello, I have a laptop with a gpu problem. I know that the best way is to get it to a shop to have them reflow it with proper equipment but i happen to have a heat gun, i also happen to be interested in the process and don't really care about the laptop. Unless it has absolutely not a chance in...

I just replaced my old 802.11g router with a new one supporting 802.11n, and since then these are the problems: >whenever i changed a setting(like security) on the repeater and rebooted itself(while being connected to the main router) and then attempted to connect again wifi connection(of the...

I guess they won't even notice this one then, we can't really know of course but confirmation that people have successfully rma'd cpus with bent pins really puts me at ease as the cpu is not mine and i was at guilt for voiding this guy's warranty,have to be extra careful next time, thanks!

Misplaced a brand new AMD cpu and got 1 bent pin(i got stupid) and then pushed it back to its original position without bringing it close to breaking(i got lucky). Placed cpu, everything works fine but unless the socket pushed the pin back to its 100% original position, is the warranty off? All...