Hit 500 successful motherboard repairs this month and honestly I lost count somewhere around 300

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500 repairs in a month is INSANE, I barely hit 150 on a good month. What failure are you seeing most on these boards that's actually making them worth the time instead of just tossing them? Are you doing mostly modern stuff or are you finding cash in older laptops and game consoles too?

wadew511mo ago

Funny you mention that @hannah400 because I've been noticing the same pattern everywhere lately. People are so quick to toss stuff that could be fixed with a $3 capacitor or a little solder work. It's like society forgot how to fix anything and just buys new instead. On the boards, it's mostly blown voltage regulators and cracked solder joints on power jacks. Older laptops are actually where the money is at for me, people throw away perfectly good ThinkPads just because the charging port wiggles loose.

spencer_owens581mo ago

Old ThinkPads and Xbox 360s are my bread and butter. People practically give them away for bad caps or a dead drive.