# Who needs Dell....

**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-needs-dell/8833
**Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic
**Created:** [March 3, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-needs-dell/8833 "2006-03-03T06:30:35Z")
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### Author: ![Locutus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/locutus/32/7574_2.png) [@Locutus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Locutus)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2006, 6:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-needs-dell/8833/1 "2006-03-03T06:30:35Z")

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When you can calll these guys…

[http://www.hhhh.org/~joeboy/past\_projects/wcl\_project\_oxcart/wcl\_project\_oxcart.html](http://www.hhhh.org/~joeboy/past_projects/wcl_project_oxcart/wcl_project_oxcart.html)

cliffs:

Three guys from WCL replaced a firewire chip on a laptop that had been fried in an electrical surge. Dell wanted 1100 dollars so they decide to do it themselves. the whole operation took 8 hours and was done completely under a microscope. Story with great pictures.

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### Author: ![97FormulaWS-6](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/97formulaws-6/32/7384_2.png) [@97FormulaWS-6](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/97FormulaWS-6)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2006, 6:36am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/who-needs-dell/8833/2 "2006-03-03T06:36:51Z")

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We do stuff this small where I work. We’ve got microscopes all over the place for solder inspections and working on parts like this. I’ve got a board here on my desk with a Motorola uP on it with 32 pins per side, and the chip is ~ 1" square.

Great stuff, it gets even better when you get into BGAs (Ball-Gate-Array) which you have to solder inspect via X-rays.