Hi All,
I recently scored a wonderful PB Ti 1 GHz, top specs (1 GHz, Radeon 64), complete with everything, down to the plastic wraps.
I am glad I could reacquaint with this ultra-cool machine, as it reminds me of when I was (well… twenty years) younger and I used to own a wonderful 667 DVI unit which I wrongfully got rid of when its time had come.
Seller auctioned it as in “unknown“ conditions (generally it means: there’s a catch, but if I disclose it nobody will buy it) and unfortunately it seems as though the machine has bad vram, resulting in garbled stuff on the screen, unless you go down to 32k colors (OS 9) or gray scale (OS X). So, I guess there’s at least one bank which is faulty.
Apparently, not such an uncommon issue with these machines.
I am not particularly bothered by it, but I was wondering if it possible to fix it.
Now, everything is soldered, but by some quick check I would speculate that the vram chips could be reballed, assuming one can source a spare (I was thinking about some period matching Radeon board as a donor).
Finding some pro lab familiar with reballing of mobile phones, tablets etc shouldn‘t be an issue.
So, before going into this adventure, I was just wondering if any of you has any experience with that.
Thanks in advance for your advice.
I recently scored a wonderful PB Ti 1 GHz, top specs (1 GHz, Radeon 64), complete with everything, down to the plastic wraps.
I am glad I could reacquaint with this ultra-cool machine, as it reminds me of when I was (well… twenty years) younger and I used to own a wonderful 667 DVI unit which I wrongfully got rid of when its time had come.
Seller auctioned it as in “unknown“ conditions (generally it means: there’s a catch, but if I disclose it nobody will buy it) and unfortunately it seems as though the machine has bad vram, resulting in garbled stuff on the screen, unless you go down to 32k colors (OS 9) or gray scale (OS X). So, I guess there’s at least one bank which is faulty.
Apparently, not such an uncommon issue with these machines.
I am not particularly bothered by it, but I was wondering if it possible to fix it.
Now, everything is soldered, but by some quick check I would speculate that the vram chips could be reballed, assuming one can source a spare (I was thinking about some period matching Radeon board as a donor).
Finding some pro lab familiar with reballing of mobile phones, tablets etc shouldn‘t be an issue.
So, before going into this adventure, I was just wondering if any of you has any experience with that.
Thanks in advance for your advice.