On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Jim Franklin wr= ote: > It's a common fault on some of the laptops, the GFX chip has no additiona= l > cooling and lead-free solder balls have a habit of developing fractures w= hen > stressed. > > (old XBOX 360's (Red ring of death) and PS3's (Yellow light of death) hav= e > similar problems) > That might be what happened to my last WiFi router. It was acting flaky - dropping packets, rebooting. I took it apart and the chip had overheated for so long that the back side of the PCB which should have been green had turned yellow. I'd like to think they didn't design it to fail in slightly more than 2 years, but I suspect they knew pretty well about how long it would live at room temperature. --=20 Martin K. --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .