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A tech picture so real, the computer has TWO power supplies! (infosec.pub)

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've done it twice actually... But I come from an embedded engineering background.

Replaced some dead caps on an expensive GPU once and the other time it was a laptop where some of the GPU memory had broken(? IDK really how it happened, it was my boss's personal machine, so few questions were asked) the connections.

In the latter case we desoldered all the tantalum caps and put the motherboard in our reflow oven. Then resoldered the tantalums. The fear being that tantalums wouldn't survive the oven we used for prototypes in the RD department I was in at the time (I count this as IT, as the admin was also an RD developer).

Both times it worked.

With that said, I don't think that I've even seen a soldering station in an IT department since the mid 00s.

[–] mack7400@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, but did you solder it midair like this boss?

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

Nope, threw it in the air and soldered it without ANY support before it hit the table - old western gunman style!

Smh, there's a whole genre in electronics humor about stock photos. At least this model didn't hold on to the hot end of the iron.