Motherboard Repair

git gud

>>61904706
Keep tinkering until you stop breaking shit. You'll need to go through a lot of parts before you understand

Get an Arduino kit. Get familiar with how basic electronics work. Look into the 7400 series logic chips and play around with those. Study digital electronics first, then move to analog electronics. Get familiar with some of the fundamental components like resistors, capacitors, inductors, amplifiers, op-amps, transistors, etc. It would be worthwhile to start off with a cheap multimeter as well since it will save you lots of time and headache.

With a topic this large, you need to start small. After years of gitting gud, then you'll start to understand that most of the electronics in our world are made of the same little collection of jellybean parts. Repairing motherboards like Louis takes years of off-the-cuff knowledge that you gain just by doing >>61904740

>>61904770
>Keep tinkering until you stop breaking shit.
this anon speaks the truth

there might be some basic guides online, but you won't learn much until you start actually getting hands on

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>repairing consumer electronics

>>61904706
Serious question.

Why would you want to repair them? A repair would cost around $50 to $100

And you can buy new mobo's usually for the same price or less with the reliability of a brand new product.

Why would anyone do the hassle of looking for a repairman when you more easily buy a new one online?

Well I hope its because you just want to do it as a hobby op and not as a career choice.

>>61906811
>A repair would cost around $50 to $100
not if you do it yourself. Then it's $5in parts

>>61906811
Good luck finding new motherboards for a laptop in general. And the reliability of a brand new product? These things go badly due to poor design. The last thing we want is the shit reliability of the new product which broke in the first place!

Sure it's a shit career but it's a pretty damn useful skill for home laptop repair.

>>61907056
>not if you do it yourself. Then it's $5in parts

So you want to go through all that trouble so you can spare yourself like $75 bucks once every few years?


>>61907091
>Sure it's a shit career but it's a pretty damn useful skill for home laptop repair.

but thats the thing. how many people do you know that are out looking for specialized mobo repair men? they'll likely just end up going to geek squad or something instead of scurrying the web for ads, looking for you.

So the percentage of people looking for mobo repairmen is already very small and the percentage of those that need the mobo repair that will bother to look for you and not go to geeksquad will be even smaller. You're looking like at .001% of laptop users.

Plus its easier to extract customers porn files and shit from the laptop's HDD than it is to fix the motherboard.

Good luck though..

>>61907344
>So you want to go through all that trouble so you can spare yourself like $75 bucks once every few years?
you mean I can save $75 and learn something about how shit works along the way?
sign me the hell up

>>61907344
>but thats the thing
No, that's not the thing. Literally. You wrote this long explanation after I JUST said that it's a shit career. I was 100% against the very notion of doing it for a job. Anywhere. Ever. I literally only said it's useful for home laptop repair. In your home, on your laptop, doing repair.

I heard it's possible to replace bad capacitors on motherboards at home, but I haven't heard about other kind of repairs with such hardware.

>>61907864
Basic components like capactiors, resistors, etc., and even various connectors, are all easy enough to source and replace. It's also trivial to run jumper wires past bad traces. Together that's like 75% of what Rossmann does.

>>61907896
Probably to do those things you need a good soldering iron, not just the regular one, because the parts are so small, it's also probably easy to break them while fixing. I find the skill of fixing hardware very impressive, maybe one day I'll get good too. For the moment being, I'll concentrate on software, this is what I mostly do now.

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you just see what's wrong and fix it

not rocket science

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>>61907938
>soldering iron
Not even that, you need a quality hot air station if youre new to this (guys like Louis could probably get by with even the shittiest stations but thats due to their skills). There are some very basic repairs you can do with an iron alone, for example I once blew the led backlight capacitor of my memepad, all it took was rewiring a tiny car fuse in its place and soldering the ends to the blown fuse (I could have just jumped it without the fuse tho). If you need to take out anything larger 5mm and more than 2 pins you'll need a hot air station.

>>61908062
>capacitor
Meant fuse. Other very basic repairs you can do with an iron alone are mechanical fixes, think of fixing a broken sata connector or a broken usb port, this because they are large and a good soldering job is not critical, also there are not always critical components next to them. But for fixing say a bad bios chip or caps you need a better tool like a hot air station, and knowing exactly what the problem is and where.

By the way what has been of little Louis? Last I knew he was scared of Apple fucking his shit up.

>>61908062
>you need a quality hot air station if youre new to this
you don't
I get around with literally the cheapest station I could find, it was like $50.

>>61904706
you cant do anything to modern computers with normal tools. they arent soldered like old pentium 2 and 3 systems were.

>>61904706

Most of issues with motherboards tend to be blown capacitors, same as the monitor.

Order one and replace it, easy.

>>61904706
The question is how did you break a motherboard?

>>61904706
Patience and practice. I can solder the smallest of things with a standard soldering iron except parts where I can't touch the pads(BGA), including the chips you see on your picture. It's all in the hand.

>>61909808
how do you replace a capacitor on something like a amd ryzen motherboard? everything is surface mounted or whatever its called now and not soldered like they were 20 years ago.

>>61909895
It's still soldered, just not with pins going through the PCB. It's actually easier if you don't have tourettes. The surface tension alone will allow you to pull the small SMD components out if you make all pads flow.