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    Has anyone reflowed/reballed a Studio 15?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by tipoo, Oct 15, 2014.

  1. tipoo

    tipoo Notebook Evangelist

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    Mine doesn't boot when it's at room temperature anymore, it only does once it's heated up, so I suspect a ball grid array crack in the GPU. When it's warmed up it works fine. I've read a few other reports of people doing this, has anyone here done it? Did you use the oven method, or a heat gun? What were your steps?
     
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    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    IMO ovens give the best results as far as DIY reflows go, but given that your 1555 doesn't have an nVidia 7000 or 8000 series GPU, I'd be hesitant to say for sure that it's a GPU issue.
     
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    I've also been wondering if a bad cap may be causing it, but then how would that explain it working fine when the CPU and GPU get really hot? And no shutdown issues once it's on, just issues starting up when it's cold. What else could it be that heat seems to fix, I wonder?

    There are quite a few others on this forum with 1555 or 1558 GPU failures though.
     
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