Candidate for a Reball?

[ProjectNightmare]

I own a IBM ThinkPad T42 which I purchased from a Car boot Sale for £10 it does work but is quite flaky sometimes it will run fine others it will display odd graphical glitches
like the ones pictured bellow
https://preview.redd.it/4o01kq396af81.j ... ae985262e9
https://preview.redd.it/c0yaxac96af81.j ... 00e2a24c60

i believe this one has some cracked joints that are responsible for the VRAM. and the issue somtimes goes away after a power cycle. either way its due a reball with leaded solder. i know of the flexing issues and handle it carefully to prevent further damage.

what are your guys opinions on this fault?


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[axur-delmeria]

First off, please resize the photos, or turn them into links. Even with a 1920x1200 LCD monitor I still can't see the entire image.

Second, good luck reballing VRAM chips that aren't on the system board, but on the GPU substrate itself:
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/com ... adeon-7500
http://www.vgamuseum.info/index.php/com ... adeon-9000.