Hi,

I have a customer who spilled tea on their laptop. The laptop is no longer working. The hard drive will not spin up using an external USB case. There were no signs of tea touching the hard drive itself. So my question is can I swap the PCB without having to swap any chips on the PCB board? And if I have to swap chips can someone identify the chip to be swapped?

Thanks for any help. Please see the attached images for the hard drive details.

Lloyd

You ABSOLUTELY MUST swap the rom chip over, will not work without doing this.

It's the 8-pin chip at IC602.

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Hi,

Thanks for the response. I've swapped IC chips before on PCB boards. This one is a little smaller than the others. I typically just used a low wattage hand soldier iron with a single wide blade and loosed one side at a time. Is there a different tool or technique that I should be using so I don't destroy the chip and make the process easier?

Thanks,
Lloyd

I wouldn't fancy doing it with an iron.

Infra red or at least hot air.

These are very thin chips and often secured with a solder pad underneath.

Suggest you get a pro to assist in this job, as if you damage the chip it will be pretty much "game over"

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