Nice attempt. I done my 1st cpu reball on a switch lite last week. Done it by hand and took bloody hours haha. There was a damaged pad under it so had to repair that 1st. It was a success!! Well chuffed. Not doing it by hand again lmao. Was also BSOD.
Good effort! I've tried hand balling myself in the past, couldn't stop the balls from sticking to the tweezers, then once I did as soon as added heat the balls moved, absolute nightmare, never again! So know what you did is hard!
I have the same board holder as you, it has its good and bad. THE BAD IS THAT IF YOU DONT LOOK WHERE THE BOARD SITS ON THE HOLDER THERE WILL BE PARTS (AKA SMD ) GET KNOCKED OFF !! . I only noticed this after the 2nd board I worked on and sure enough its the exact same spot, on this time I was lucky and able to find it on my mat and solder it back. Look around the edge of your board for missing components. I was missing a diode in mines.
Once it's exfoliated, there's nnothing you can do. It either still works (very rarely) or it does not. The CPU substrates have solder too, if you heat them too much, they expand, letting that solder out eventually. Looks kind of peculiar and I strongly believe that you rushed out the process, as I have used 550C in the past, for GPUs, but that was towards end of life, and the layers were very thick, and even so, it doesn't allow you to do it too often. The substrate will eventually fail.
I know its 7 months old and maybe you figured it out already. But you should use some infrared preheater and I'd suggest using balls instead of paste. I have way more success with them. Also you didnt put any flux under the chip before you put it back. I'd put a medium amount of flux. (Too much and it floats somewhere where you dont want it and too little and it bridges. It's not easy but essentially you're doing very well already. Also after you soldered it on measure the caps next to ram and the ones on the CPU for shorts. If there is any direct shorts (0.2Ohm or less) the reball failed and you need to take the cpu off yet again.
Thanks for the tips, I've not tried again since. I appreciate people leaving comments as it helps me learn. I have tired solder balls before but really struggle, not sure if I'm getting cheap ones?
From Bluescreen to Blackscreen😂No Pretty good for the first time. I practiced on old notebook circuit boards and destroyed a lot of them. 480C is way too much, you just get popcorn. It's best to work with a preheater and heat the board to 150C from below and then heat from above to max 300C, preferably 250-270C
Thanks for the feedback, I didn't even think of the temp when I started, just wanted it hot! Obviously its not great. You live and learn, I learnt a lot and feel much more confident for doing another!
Board should be baked before attempting this to remove moisture from the apu, something like 24h@100°c - not that the excessive heat helped either. I still enjoyed watching the video 🤣
Thanks, I know mistakes are made but I don't want to just put videos out which look like I fix everything, got to show its not as easy as the pros make it look! I am really no pro, obviously!
the odds i think are good that a bad modkit install was tryed and removed from the switch. that caused the blue screen. it really looks like power charging chips may have shorts
well there is popcorning on the chip you basicly killed the chip while you were removing it that moisture dries itself you did not had to clean that it resulted in uneven balls and finally check for shorts after any reball or reflow the way you did this reball it was physically getting sick try to practice on the dead pc motherboards chipsets they have identical dimensions and use a pre heater under the board next time use 390 for 1min and 440 to 450 from distance to remove the chip and use a pre heater to pre heat the board to atlest 180 200c or you will kill every other reball too!!
bluescreen doesnt always mean reballing is necessary that is a myth. i have seen it happen to switch after mod kit install to oled when cable not soldered correctly. always go wire installation dont use cable
next time try to do every step more clean more precize cover the rams reduce the aire of your heat gun and work very slowly you should cary about any 1 ball on the cpu
Yer thanks, ideally I thought I might pull it off but in reality I expected a failure. I will go again if I get a blue screen again, just not going out my way for one!
@@fixingmoddingbuilding You need to know that there's solder balls between the DIE and the chip PCB too, you can damage them and you can't do anything about it if it happens !
Nice attempt. I done my 1st cpu reball on a switch lite last week. Done it by hand and took bloody hours haha. There was a damaged pad under it so had to repair that 1st. It was a success!! Well chuffed. Not doing it by hand again lmao. Was also BSOD.
Good effort! I've tried hand balling myself in the past, couldn't stop the balls from sticking to the tweezers, then once I did as soon as added heat the balls moved, absolute nightmare, never again!
So know what you did is hard!
I have never seen this kind of reballing, amazing work although you weren't able to fix it! Loved watching it though!❤
Thanks, I learnt a lot, will go again another time
"Links to items I use." i miss the board holder.
made a video a while back, links down now but you will have the details from this to search for it:
ua-cam.com/video/TGjbI4ppm2s/v-deo.html
I have the same board holder as you, it has its good and bad. THE BAD IS THAT IF YOU DONT LOOK WHERE THE BOARD SITS ON THE HOLDER THERE WILL BE PARTS (AKA SMD ) GET KNOCKED OFF !! . I only noticed this after the 2nd board I worked on and sure enough its the exact same spot, on this time I was lucky and able to find it on my mat and solder it back. Look around the edge of your board for missing components. I was missing a diode in mines.
Yes I've also learnt the hard way too!
Reballing looks really hard to get exactly right. Good job and good job on future attempts!
Yes, harder then I expected and I thought it looked hard before starting!
Once it's exfoliated, there's nnothing you can do. It either still works (very rarely) or it does not. The CPU substrates have solder too, if you heat them too much, they expand, letting that solder out eventually. Looks kind of peculiar and I strongly believe that you rushed out the process, as I have used 550C in the past, for GPUs, but that was towards end of life, and the layers were very thick, and even so, it doesn't allow you to do it too often. The substrate will eventually fail.
I know its 7 months old and maybe you figured it out already. But you should use some infrared preheater and I'd suggest using balls instead of paste. I have way more success with them.
Also you didnt put any flux under the chip before you put it back. I'd put a medium amount of flux. (Too much and it floats somewhere where you dont want it and too little and it bridges.
It's not easy but essentially you're doing very well already.
Also after you soldered it on measure the caps next to ram and the ones on the CPU for shorts. If there is any direct shorts (0.2Ohm or less) the reball failed and you need to take the cpu off yet again.
Thanks for the tips, I've not tried again since.
I appreciate people leaving comments as it helps me learn.
I have tired solder balls before but really struggle, not sure if I'm getting cheap ones?
From Bluescreen to Blackscreen😂No Pretty good for the first time. I practiced on old notebook circuit boards and destroyed a lot of them. 480C is way too much, you just get popcorn. It's best to work with a preheater and heat the board to 150C from below and then heat from above to max 300C, preferably 250-270C
Thanks for the feedback, I didn't even think of the temp when I started, just wanted it hot! Obviously its not great.
You live and learn, I learnt a lot and feel much more confident for doing another!
Board should be baked before attempting this to remove moisture from the apu, something like 24h@100°c - not that the excessive heat helped either. I still enjoyed watching the video 🤣
Thanks, I was spilt on making the video or not, but thought f##k it, I don't claim to be a pro but all the tips are great for future attempts!
I dont have yellow tape can i use foil instead
Yes
@@fixingmoddingbuilding thanks man great method btw I subscribed
good effort, reballing is a nightmare
Thanks, I know mistakes are made but I don't want to just put videos out which look like I fix everything, got to show its not as easy as the pros make it look! I am really no pro, obviously!
@@fixingmoddingbuilding yeah fixing everything isn't the reality, I have loads of failed boards
the odds i think are good that a bad modkit install was tryed and removed from the switch. that caused the blue screen. it really looks like power charging chips may have shorts
That's what happened to mine, installed a mod chip and got a blue screen
@@Msh3lb I am having the same problem right now. Did you end up fixing it ? I'm currently trying to find a solution
well there is popcorning on the chip
you basicly killed the chip while you were removing it
that moisture dries itself you did not had to clean that it resulted in uneven balls
and finally check for shorts after any reball or reflow
the way you did this reball
it was physically getting sick
try to practice on the dead pc motherboards chipsets
they have identical dimensions
and use a pre heater under the board next time
use 390 for 1min
and 440 to 450 from distance to remove the chip
and use a pre heater to pre heat the board to atlest 180 200c
or you will kill every other reball too!!
bluescreen doesnt always mean reballing is necessary that is a myth. i have seen it happen to switch after mod kit install to oled when cable not soldered correctly. always go wire installation dont use cable
You have Popcorn efect, you have no conttrol of temp. Is to high, and you don't observe MSL
you over cook it that s the cause of bubbles on the chip
next time try to do every step more clean more precize cover the rams reduce the aire of your heat gun and work very slowly you should cary about any 1 ball on the cpu
Yer thanks, ideally I thought I might pull it off but in reality I expected a failure.
I will go again if I get a blue screen again, just not going out my way for one!
How to send for repair
Send where?
Le faltan muchos condensadores al chip 😅😅
What is the name of the device you are using to test the power of the Nintendo Switch?
I think 480c is way too much :( , the best for reball is preheat the board and use less heat with the gun.
Nice try, keep going 👍
Yer I realise now, was just thinking get it hot and get it off!
I didn't think what potential damage I could do!
@@fixingmoddingbuilding You need to know that there's solder balls between the DIE and the chip PCB too, you can damage them and you can't do anything about it if it happens !
Do you have a send in service?
I didn't fix it mate, I'm probably best not to offer that 😁
Great try dont let it m this stop you, next time try not too use so much high heat
Thanks
You killed the chip 480 degrees c u need a preheater atleast 280-300 degrees
Yer, think its pretty clear I killed it..
@@fixingmoddingbuilding professionals does this with 180 degrees with preheater
217c is temperature for liquid, you need minimum 275c on hot air, with preheater at 200c @@kevinmagsy0312
You can use Quick 861DW reballing machine and you will get very good results in reballing
Bubbles in APU!!
Yes, too hot, dead! 😩
It's not a job for hotair :p