Just hit my 100th motherboard reball... never thought I'd get here

Been fixing game consoles on the side for about 2 years now. Last night I realized I've done over 100 reball jobs on PS4 and Xbox boards. I remember my first one took like 4 hours and I still screwed it up... cracked the chip. Now I can knock one out in 45 minutes easy. It's wild how much repeat business I get from local shops too. Has anyone else tracked their repair counts and gotten surprised by the numbers?

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skyler4312d ago

Used to think reballing was a waste of time and you should just swap the whole board. Saw a guy with 200+ successful reballs on PS4s and it changed my mind. Now I do them all the time for local shops and they never complain. That skill saves people a ton of money on repairs.

sarah53112d ago

Reballing saved my PS4 when swap boards were impossible to find from @william_carter's recommended sellers.

william_carter12d ago

Yeah but 200+ successful reballs doesn't mean much if you're not the one doing them. I've seen guys claim crazy numbers online but never post the failures. My buddy tried this on a PS4 Pro, spent three hours on it, and the thing still came back with a dead GPU a week later. You end up chasing bad joints for months instead of just swapping the board and being done. For a local shop maybe it works because they don't have a wait time to worry about. But for a regular person? You're better off just buying a used console and moving on.