Remember that by the time consequences of a short-sighted decision are experienced, the idiot who made the bad decision may have already been promoted or moved on to a better job at another company.
Bad SB could cause freezing, disappearing USB, no detection of ODD/HDD/keyboard, things like that.
Reballing should work, southbridges don't get hot, more likely is that the laptop has been dropped and some of the solder balls detached.
Originally posted by PeteS in CA
Remember that by the time consequences of a short-sighted decision are experienced, the idiot who made the bad decision may have already been promoted or moved on to a better job at another company.
My personal experience the other day. Laptop LGR510 (quanta QL8 board UMA) came with problem with inverter and screen. Screen was a quite rare model of 15.4 led with separate inverter. Ordered and replaced ic on inverter (OZ9956B) light came to the screen's leds but the screen wasn't working (the usual screen tab problem). Fixed it. Laptop went into windows but it was so slow and after a few reboots it will not even go into windows (stuck on the running bar of windows vista). Changed everything (CPU, ram, hdd) and was ready to replace - reball Northbridge when I noticed that one of the two resistors of the adj signal to the inverter was not installed on board (the one from the northbridge side) and the signal was coming only from the KBC. So, I decided to replace first the KBC before replacing the Northbridge (The truth was that I had in stock the KBC but I had to wait a long time for a Northbridge replacement).
And the result, it was a faulty KBC.
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