Watched a guy at a Fort Worth repair bench fix a dead laptop with 30 seconds of reflow, and I've been doing it wrong for 6 months

Lily Roberts · 2026-10-10T08:55:03.271387+00:00

I was at a buddy's shop over on Camp Bowie last Friday picking up a power supply when he took a no-post Dell, pulled the board, and hit the GPU with a heat gun at 380C for 30 seconds. Thing booted right up and he charged the guy $95. I've been quoting full board replacements this whole time, so now I'm wondering how many of those I could've saved. Any of you doing reflows as a standard first step, or is that asking for a comeback in 3 months?

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