[ltp] vertical lines error on the lcd screen

[Oisin Feeley]

On 4/3/07, Bill Andrus <languru@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>  > (vertical lines, console mode text garbled...)
>
> Your System Board has failed.  The ATI display chips are on a PCB carrier
> that is soldered into the main PCB, and (usually due to flexing or pressure
> around the spacebar and trackpoint buttons) the internal soldering has
> broken.  Problem in its earliest stages will be temperature and pressure
> sensitive, later it will become more pronounced with system freeze-ups and
> reboots.

I've heard people talk about sending the board to have the solder
"re-fluxed" to correct this problem.  Do you have any idea if this is
really possible?

Thanks,
Oisin