hannstar j mv-4 94v-0 motherboard only works when area is overheated?

[michaelaubry1991]

So randomly the other day when I went to manually restart my toshiba satellite due to a synaptics failure/crash, my computer would not start at all. Long story short, after taking it apart and reading multiple threads I came across one which mentioned the solder joint being cold and references to cooking the motherboard/ "blanket trick".

Since the computer was already apart I took a hair dryer to it and baked the motherboard. Specifically in the lower middle part of the motherboard, when applying heat towards that area the computer boots up fine. I left it to cool and after awhile it starts to fail again.

My question is does my motherboard need to be replaced or could I just reheat the joints permanently with some kind of tool? Is this common for a 4 year old computer? Basically what are my options at this point, and if you're up for it could you explain why is this happening?

 

[damric]

hehe yeah this happens, especially on older stuff, but it can happen on newer PCBs as well. It's simply bad/cracked solder joints. Often to repair them, all you do is reheat them. It's quite common to stick a motherboard or graphics card in the oven to fix them.

But perhaps your wire traces are FUBAR'd as well. I got nothing for that.

My favorite baking video is by this hulk-nerd named jago.

http://www.overclock.net/t/529271/bake-your-graphics-card-in-the-oven-fix-it-worked

 

[michaelaubry1991]

hehe yeah this happens, especially on older stuff, but it can happen on newer PCBs as well. It's simply bad/cracked solder joints. Often to repair them, all you do is reheat them. It's quite common to stick a motherboard or graphics card in the oven to fix them.

But perhaps your wire traces are FUBAR'd as well. I got nothing for that.

My favorite baking video is by this hulk-nerd named jago.

http://www.overclock.net/t/529271/bake-your-graphics-card-in-the-oven-fix-it-worked

Wow cool, I didn't expect a response this fast, nice! Good answer it's nice to hear this is common, thanks for the link, another guy said he put his motherboard in the oven I am going to try that tomorrow.

Hopefully this can hold me up for a little longer, I did get another computer the other day, but it's my baby and it saves me from having to keep fiddling with it, and at least now I can get into it so I can access some data.

Thanks!

 

[damric]

Be sure to remove all plastic/rubber you can if you are going to bake.