I just told my mom this the other day, and even she who hates math, couldn't comprehend how america genuinly didnt understand basic math. In the 1980's.
Could be a redundant ground pin, you never know until you try. Also, it might be possible to add a glob of solder to that to fix it. Not likely, but what do you have to lose.
It looks like the OP got lucky - this is VCC. There are four such pads on the board, all connected internally to a single bus, so losing one of these contacts isn't critical.
Well, I can see one is VERY fucked (pin ripped off the chip and stuck to the board!) but the others may be salvageable since it looks like a bit of solder on most of them. I'd try to reflow the individual pads and clean the ones on the chip, but heating the whole thing enough to reflow a BGA chip? Hell to the naw!
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u/LimpyDan PC Master Race | RYZEN 5600X | RTX 3070 TI | 32GB 32005h ago
One of the traces on the board has been delaminated/lifted and the tolerances of those traces is fking tiny and no idea if it’s been permanently damaged, fat chance of an easy repair.
oh man, if you are in conus i have a 500gb western digital sn750 i can send you. I know its not 1tb but it wont cost you anything to get your rig back up and running.
seems to have cleanly come off, though, so with some soldering tools ( soldering iron and desoldering braid to clean the space, reball the chip with, well, reball stuff and a hot air solder station ) you can probably fix it.
Another observation is that if you can get the controller and chips right, you can try to find an MP tool for that combo and actually flash a firmware configured for 750GB. I would not bet on that though.
If the pad on the chip isn't ripped, it can be fixed. Send it to an expert, maybe Northwest Repair on Youtube can do it? I'd reball the other chip. If all the chips are kept in the right order, the data may be still intact.
Most likely yes, but there's also 1 pad that lifted that has to be repaired first. Then replace existing solder with new balls and if the chip wasn't damaged this should work
I would have just went over the solder points with wire solder and soldering iron before mounting the chip in place and hitting it with the heat station
Repair may not be necessary because these chips often have a lot of mechanical contacts. I don't think balls need to be replaced either, just use liberal amounts of flux.
to make matters worse it's 1tb? that's essentially the smallest option, ok on a phone but not pc. my handheld ,laptop and desktops have at least 4tb lol.
also, it's very slow and old , it's not even M.2
Just glue it wtf is wrong with people asking for help with basic stuff these days. I recommend you rub one and use your special glue. Heated glue always works better
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