I saw some posts at one point talking about doing a reflow but I couldn't find them again so I thought that I would post this here.

I plan on reflowing the GPU of this old HP DV2500 laptop but I want to go over what I have and the steps I have to take to guarantee it will come out fine.

I have a Yihua 8786D 2in1 Rework station, flux (just some paste that I got from an old Radioshack kit), a couple rolls of Kapton tape and a $15 Thermometer +probe (a TM902C from EMR shielding Solutions if its important).[LIST][*]The paper that came with the thermometer states that the...

Looking for a Boardview file for the HP Pavilion DV2500 if it exists at all. Got the laptop from a sibling of mine who said it took heat damage probably 14 years ago which falls in line with the complaints I've read from people who used it for a few years. That said I'd still like to see if I could get it working before giving it away for scrap, the little blue light on the side gives me some hope that it could be saved.

Hello I'm Mr_Nada. I have a hobby in repairing broken electronics, kinda late in getting into it in my opinion but I figure that I might as well try as I'd rather not throw something out unless it can't be fixed.