On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Anna <[email protected]> wrote: > A while ago, both my XO 1.5 units from the contributor's program pooped > out. Wouldn't boot at all. My friend kevix said he had a similar issue > with his and that it was a solder issue. > > I was going to send them back to Holt, but then I read about solder reflow. > > So, I took the mobo out of one of the XO 1.5 units, broke it down to just > the board and nothing else, then put it in the toaster. On a metal pan > supported by four balls of tin foil: 385F for 8 mins. Put everything back > together and, to my complete and utter astonishment, it booted. In fact, > I'm typing this email on it now. > > My question is, has anyone else ever tried this and, if so, are there more > optimal time/temperature parameters. I still have the other XO 1.5 unit to > attend to and I'd like to hear some feedback before baking it. > > Anna Schoolfield > Birmingham > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel > >
Oh, this is phenomenally cool! Bake your laptop to fix it. Awesome :-) cheers, Sameer -- Dr. Sameer Verma, Ph.D. Professor, Information Systems San Francisco State University http://verma.sfsu.edu/ http://olpcsf.org/ _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
