Three6T said:
I'm no computer expert so I'm not going to pretend I am but couldn't the hard-drive and disc drive still be used? What about the motherboard? Does cracked soldering completely destroy the motherboard and in retrospect does a comppletely destroyed motherboard damage the other componenets? Thanks:) |
As far as I know it was the motherboard warping that caused the solderig to fail, triggering the RRoD. When they designed the new chipsets I believe they moved stuff around on the motherboard to dissipate the heat more efficiently so old boards are useless.