Has anyone personally tried Superior Reball?

[erik21]

I wanted to see if these guys were legit before I mailed off my T42.

Has anyone on these forums personally given it a shot?

Thanks,
erik

[rkawakami]

Welcome to thinkpads.com!

I believe that a couple of members here have used the services of Superior Reball and have had varying experiences. You can try plugging in "superior reball" into the search box and select the "Search for all terms" option.

[john518]

take a look at this thread http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.ph ... sc&start=0

[rjenovai]

I had them do a reball on a G3 ibook GPU about a year and a half ago and didn't have any issues. However, I live only 15 minutes or so from their facility, so I could always stop there at any time. From what I've read, they seem to be hit or miss, unfortunately.

[sjthinkpader]

Another service is Hammerhead technologies in Chico, CA.

Most of these "reballing" service is really "reflowing". Usually reballing is used to recover the chip. It is very hard to take a chip off populated board, clean the board up, clean up the chip, reattach balls, then reattach the chip without affecting other components still on the board. Handling a single board will almost certain to cost morethant he $50-$100 now charged.

I saw a machine attaching balls to BGA packages making high volume memory chips a few years ago. They are very specialized and expensive machines.

[tgrevers]

They recently did a T42 for me. $50, including return shipping. It took about 10 days for the T42 to return. Overall, they did excellent work, and I have had no problems with the machine. They offered me a 1 year warranty on their work as well. I'll likely send them an X32 that I have, which also has GPU problems.

-t