Electro-ramblings

Prove if it were needed that hobbyists are resourceful fellows comes from Dutch hardware geek Mark Hoekstra, who has gone to extremes to repair an Apple iBook.

His blog post at DIY obsolete iBook logic repair shows in exquisite detail how he fixed the (in)famous graphics problem on an iBook.

Here's the YouTube vid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u68G-gCkswk

Amazingly the board is powered up as he heats the ATI graphics chip! And he posted to the blog using the repaired iBook. Superb.

I once did some accidental BGA rework on a military avionics graphics board by forgetting to reconnect the airflow cooling system. Unlike Mark's, the board did not survive!