Just hit 10,000 motherboard repairs, still waiting on the trophy
I keep a tally on my bench whiteboard, mostly out of habit, and yesterday I ticked over 10,000 board-level repairs since I started doing this in 2009. That includes 3,412 dead capacitors, 847 firmware bricks, and one laptop that just needed the CMOS battery swapped but the customer insisted I replace the whole trace. It hit me weird because 10,000 is a big number, but the most common fix is still a $2 part and 20 minutes of work. Anyone else track their repairs or just forget them the second the machine boots? I'm thinking of framing the whiteboard marker I used for the zero.