Since this laptop didn't cost me very much (a small enough amount that I could recoup costs by reselling the other components) I decided to try reflowing the solder on the motherboard. I ...

[Sterling]’s MacBook Pro has a propensity to heat up at times. Some of this overheating is due to to what he uses his Mac for – gaming and making music. A larger part of this overheatin… ...

Around here, reflow ovens usually mean a toaster oven, and if you’re exceptionally cool, a thermistor and PID controller. There are, of course, a thousand ways to turn solder paste into a sol… ...

Solder reflowing also won't solve quite as many problems as proper resoldering does, but in the case of pins that aren't visibly broken but are still losing contact with the board in some way (for ...

There are also advantages to be gained from the reduction in the thermal stresses imposed on circuit boards and components by reflowing at a lower temperature. In 2017, Intel and Lenovo announced ...