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This was a Sandisk iSSD 24GB.
It had failed, or its solder connections had failed.
The laptop it was soldered to, it's BIOS could not bypass it. The machine would stop dead, and wait...and wait...and wait... until whatever parameter ASUS had felt was needed had timed out. Cold boot times were about 11 minutes, warm boots were somewhat faster. Once booted the machine performed fine! Shutdowns were terrible, taking several minutes as well.
Basically the laptop was not very useful in such shape.
It had to go.
So, since I have no ROHS solder reflow gear I had to depend on the fact the solder connections were faulty. Yep, I brute forced it off the motherboard, beads of sweat covering my forehead, cheeks and tip of my nose. Hoping that when I ripped it off the board that the machine was still bootable.
Thankfully, it came off without too much force (Though obviously enough to snap it in half) and the motherboard came though remarkably well.
Machine boots fine now, no ill effects, Win10Pro installed.
It had failed, or its solder connections had failed.
The laptop it was soldered to, it's BIOS could not bypass it. The machine would stop dead, and wait...and wait...and wait... until whatever parameter ASUS had felt was needed had timed out. Cold boot times were about 11 minutes, warm boots were somewhat faster. Once booted the machine performed fine! Shutdowns were terrible, taking several minutes as well.
Basically the laptop was not very useful in such shape.
It had to go.
So, since I have no ROHS solder reflow gear I had to depend on the fact the solder connections were faulty. Yep, I brute forced it off the motherboard, beads of sweat covering my forehead, cheeks and tip of my nose. Hoping that when I ripped it off the board that the machine was still bootable.
Thankfully, it came off without too much force (Though obviously enough to snap it in half) and the motherboard came though remarkably well.
Machine boots fine now, no ill effects, Win10Pro installed.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
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Yah, I really, throughly dislike 'ROHS' solder. I understand the *why*, but durn-it, the first 5+ years of it before the ductility issues were better understood has bitten me I dunno how many times now.
Before 2007 I'd had ONE device, an ACER CRT, where the I had a cold joint ductility issue. I seem to recall 5 or 6 example since 2007 :/
The ASUS laptop fun is mentioned very briefly in the first paragraph on Kerwin's blog. (iSSD rot)
http://www.traubitz.com
Before 2007 I'd had ONE device, an ACER CRT, where the I had a cold joint ductility issue. I seem to recall 5 or 6 example since 2007 :/
The ASUS laptop fun is mentioned very briefly in the first paragraph on Kerwin's blog. (iSSD rot)
http://www.traubitz.com
ROHS reflow gear? you mean a hotter soldering iron? (well one with a very tiny tip) I use 60/40 rosin core radio solder on everything I repair. If postage wasn't ridiculous for heavy stuff, I could mail you some. After dealing with the after effects of cold solder "tin whisker or hair" growth burning out key components in my radio gear, I have decided I hate RoHS. NASA and DoD cant be wrong in refusing to comply with it's use for mission critical items.
For those wanting to learn more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/ar.....he-making.html
Page 41 - 77 - http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/refere.....ic-pb-free.pdf
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21151552/...../#.VoP_FWdgmM8
http://www.tinwhisker.us/
For those wanting to learn more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy)
http://www.militaryaerospace.com/ar.....he-making.html
Page 41 - 77 - http://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/refere.....ic-pb-free.pdf
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/21151552/...../#.VoP_FWdgmM8
http://www.tinwhisker.us/
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