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nick
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How safe is it to reflow boards in the oven?
I have been planning on buying a DV9000 on eBay or craigslist like mine with a bad screen and GPU to steal a motherboard
In general, how safe is the oven for reflowing or am I better off using a toaster oven just for reflowing
I have been using a heatgun for a while and still do, but the DV9000 series tends to need this "reflow" done differently in most cases to make them last
People will try anything to reflow, although I only use dodgy methods on junk
Now I see people using lighters(anyone here listen to bruno mars will recognize this as a song) to reflow!
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Chris Green
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I would just recommend using a heatgun. I've been reflowing Xbox 360's and PS3's for years now. The trick to it is to "Preheat" the board first by passing over the whole thing on low heat for 2 minutes, then use high heat on the GPU/CPU and keep the gun moving the whole time. You start damaging components when you keep the heatgun in the same spot for too long, so don't just keep the heatgun on the GPU chip the whole time.
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No matter how you do you cant get more life by doing reflow's if you use a oven you will be melting all the other components as well. you could try replacing the card using a BGA reflow machine or a good long time fix would be replacing it with a new mother board, if you use a used mother board you will be again having the same issues.
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