mattius · HackerTrans

I have extensive lung damage from being born premature, I've had pneumonia 13 times, and last April I spontaneously collapsed a lung requiring surgery that cost 80k. My doctor says if I catch covid I'm done, no matter how many vaccines I get. My brother also died from covid last year. I'm tired of walking around feeling like everyone is pointing a gun at my head because they think covid is a joke. Seriously, fuck all you antivaxxers. I wish I could legally endanger your lives just as you've decided to endanger mine over your stupid beliefs.

mattius

5 anni fadiscuss

The position in which you placed the console was a separate issue that caused the same failure. The stress from the mounting bracket was a bigger factor.

I tried looking for a good visual example and this article describes the issue, and fix, pretty well.

https://www.instructables.com/Fix-the-Red-Ring-of-Deathwitho...

The fix would only last so long because once a ball grid array looses connections there is no real fix. It takes very special equipment to create those connections in the first place.

If you search "ball grid array soldering" on YouTube you'll see what I'm talking about. They're a real pain to try to fix once broken.

mattius

5 anni fadiscuss

Yes this was absolutely true. I used to repair these systems when they got the dreaded red ring of death. Microsoft used inferior solder, and coupled this with a poorly designed heatsink mounting bracket. The heatsink mounting bracket on the back of the motherboard was bowed by design, and would pull back on the corners of the CPU, while a middle contact point would press up on the center of the CPU socket. Once heated, this caused the motherboard to flex directly under the CPU, and this stress would pop the ball grid array solder points under the CPU.

The trick was to place a stack of nylon bushings at each corner of the CPU, to take up the free space after removing the bracket. This removed the stress from under the CPU and would usually bring the system back to life for another eight months or so.

mattius

6 anni fadiscuss

Same here. I have a year old Cannon laser printer. While I've never had issues getting it to connect to WiFi, it's useless if multicast isn't enabled on the network. This lowers my speeds significantly. Without it the printer refuses to cooperate, even if I manually enter the IP address into a client. My network equipment is Ubiquiti which serves a mixture of Mac and Windows clients. Disabling multicast with an exception for the printers MAC address doesn't work either.

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