any way to tell cpu or gpu is dead or solder joints cracked?

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  • myth77
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Feb 2017
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    any way to tell cpu or gpu is dead or solder joints cracked?

    well the title is already a question...is there any way to tell cpu or gpu (inegrated) is completely dead or solder joints cracked?
    For example i was trying to repair one laptop and finally using ddr3 tester i found that cpu solder joints are cracked..because when i pressure the cpu towards the motherboard in some point the lights were on on ddr3 tester, but without pressure some lights were off indicating that something is wrong between cpu-memory comunication... so i reball it and now its fine...but what about gpu and other cpu but without ddr and other tester? is there any way of telling for sure that either dead cpu/gpu is dead or cracked in solder joints?

    Thank you!
    Last edited by myth77; 03-22-2018, 04:17 AM.

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