Surface mounted CPU's

[artois7]

Just got a laptop from a mate who said to me the laptop "just needed a new CPU".. No big deal.

Opened it up, pulled off the heatsink and the CPU goes with it. Turns out it's a surface mount CPU and he's used a screwdriver to pry it off of the motherboard.

Is this thing now dead, or can surface mount CPU's be replaced?

[Evil Lurker]

Re: Surface mounted CPU's

Its dead.

Either the force of the cpu being ripped off or the screwdriver being pushed into the pcb has likely damaged the boards circuit traces making it unrepairable.

[artois7]

Re: Surface mounted CPU's

Figured as much. Will strip it for parts then.

[Scenic]

Re: Surface mounted CPU's

Could you slap that guy for me please?!

Reminds me of a guy I knew.. (I said "knew" on purpose.. *cough*)

He had a computer with 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR3 RAM and one of the sticks had died. 2GB RAM vs. Photoshop (for work) definitely isn't fun.
I had no DDR3 sticks handy and I was pretty busy at the time, so I told him he would have to wait a couple days.
He got impatient, bought some random RAM stick (not even sure if it was DDR3) somewhere and decided to do it himself. Instead of putting the RAM in the right way around, he somehow hammered it into the slot upside down (notch in the wrong place).

End result: fried RAM, fried board, fried CPU (Athlon II X2 250 3GHz ; integrated memory controller)

[artois7]

Re: Surface mounted CPU's

Ouch. I'll post a pic of the board later so you can all chuckle at me losing £40.