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    Reply to ian nsubuga's message on my personal page.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Meaker@Sager, Apr 9, 2016.

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    @ian nsubuga You can't reply to comments on comments on personal pages, to answer your question then since your chips are soldered on the motherboard either you need to try the oven baking trick or get them professionally resoldered. This might also be temporary as there are two levels of solder on the GPU:

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    They can only replace the layer between the motherboard PCB and the package so only getting new chips to replace your current ones (not easy or cheap) would solve a cracked solder issue for certain. It depends where the issue is.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 9, 2016
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