Thursday, January 07, 2010

another formatter board failure



If this looks familiar, then you've got a good memory. About a year ago, my last formatter board from my p2015dn printer went tits up. I guess they had some manufacturing problem whereby the BGA wasn't soldered down properly (thanks lead free solder, you suck!) Anyway, instead of coughing up the 140 bucks or so it seems it would take to replace the board, I baked it in the oven. Yep, that's right. I put the formatter board in the oven @350 for 8 minutes on a cookie sheet. It seems to be working now. I should have just done that with the first one.

I was googling the problem and someone else said they had luck with that, so why not.

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