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Originally Posted by DaveWM
...so back in the day did shops just relace the whole board or do componet level repairs?
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I think it depended on the shop. I asked my friend that same question a few years ago that had a shop in Port Arthur. In his shop, they usually repaired the board instead of replacing. Once they were familiar with the common failures on certain boards, it was cheaper for the customer to replace a cap or transistor instead of buying a whole new board.
He said that was not always the case for the bigger businesses. If they were performing warranty work or had a heavy work load... they'd just change the whole board, and send the old board back to the manufacturer for repairs. The repaired board was sent back out as refurbished.