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this post was submitted on 31 May 2026
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hah nice!
mine lives on my desk due to BGA failures ๐
Oh wow, that's actually a cool piece to keep! The ATI logo on the die looks amazing up close.
haha it's pretty cute. some people make keychains from die packages like this.
When I saw the display corruption in your video, I was worried that your board met the same fate. In my case, I was able to oven bake the board (with as much removed from the PCB as possible) to temporarily resolder the faulty BGA connections and get my data off the system. I'm kind of amazed that a deep clean and repaste resolved that on your end, but glad to see it.
Haha a keychain from the die would actually be awesome! And yeah, when that display corruption showed up I genuinely thought it was dead โ was shocked that a clean and repaste fixed it. The oven bake trick is impressive, glad you got your data back!