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Re:Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric by _delirium on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @11:06PM (#21077784)
I know that hobbyists do this on vintage equipment, repairing '80s home computers and such. But is it at all common at scale with recent motherboards? I find it hard to believe that any substantial percentage of 2010s motherboards that fail are being diagnosed, repaired, and put back into service.
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Re:Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric by BAReF00t on Thursday September 26, 2019 @07:37AM (#21079964)
What do you think happens to electronics that are sent back during warranty due to being defective?

They are mostly "refurbished" (=repaired and cleaned), and then sold again. If possible, even as new. Or, of course, sent back fixed.

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Re:Goodbye, Motherboard. Hello, Silicon-Interconnect Fabric by _delirium on Thursday September 26, 2019 @10:06AM (#21080969)
I'd be open to any contrary numbers on this, but my expectation has been that most mobos pulled out of service, especially by high-volume operators like the AWS datacenters, are just junked, not repaired or refurbished.
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