It’s just a flesh wound.
It looks like you’re going to have to reconnect a couple of traces, but if you’ve got some magnet wire and a fine tipped iron you should be good to go. You probably don’t need that bit on the left, it doesn’t look important.
It’s dead.
At least for windows, Linux will probably run okayish.
If you have a soldering iron and a factory full of orphan children you can put it back together (the orphans must be children for the tiny hands)
When I worked in cell phone repair, someone brought in a cell phone in similar condition and asked a similar question, all while seeming quite sincere.
At least they were honest; they explained it had fallen out of their pocket while mowing and gotten entangled in the mower blades. Not sure how they expected us to affect repairs, though. We declined as politely as we could and directed them to where they could buy a replacement.
A lot of folks think that tech people are wizards, and maybe there was a chance. Source: I work in IT.
If the time was right, I’d be checking for an SD card. There’d be a chance to save some fraction of their data…
Have you tried turning it off and on again?
It’s modular now.
Have you tried putting it in a bowl of rice?
How does one even accomplish this? Dropping the board alone wouldn’t even do this, almost intentional
You can see an angle grinder cut into the chip left to the cpu socket. Looks like the board snapped while they where cutting it for some reason.
Nice thinking! I was cutting it with a hacksaw and I snapped it by hand when I was sure I wouldn’t damage the socket.
Ohh how right you are. Moderately ok eyes you got there!
Yep, just dump some flex seal on it and it’s good to go.
I prefer Goop or PC7/JB Weld
I was wondering what was wrong until it hit me. I thought this was one of those laptops where they purposely cut the board into pieces so it’d fit 😬
Nothing some ducktape couldn’t fix!
You’d think so, right? But duct tape is conductive, my friend. Use, electrical tape. Non conductive and it even comes in blue! Fix-er-up, like new!
Well, those broken pieces need to get conducted somehow.
That’ll buff out
Probably easier to fix than performing certain brain surgeries.
