I've now added this to the list of things to check when a board doesn't work on the first try.
Had I given up, not only would this board have been wasted, but future boards would take longer to rework. This is why I don't give up easily. Unless the CPU is actually damaged, it should be able to be fixed!
Gotta be real with you all today, #Signet #Saturday isn't going great. I've spent the last hour and a half reseating this CPU, and adding/removing solder, waiting for it to cool and then testing it in my machine and I'm making only tiny amounts of progress.
I know many would say that I am wasting my time; that I should just call this one unit a loss and move on. The problem isn't the sunk cost fallacy, but that I don't want things to go to waste. At some point I will give up, but not yet…
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