But, if you
know what and why to do something, a swap is not a crime.
Our views will differ on
this, I suspect :-)
I see nothing more wrong with swapping boards than with swapping chips,
fundamentally. If I have a machine with a blown cg6, I pull it and pop
in another, problem solved. (I have enough spare cg6s that I do not
expect to run out in the foreseeable future.)
Most of the criticisms of boardswapping I've seen have actually been
against *blind* boardswapping, against easter-egg swaps in the hope
that they'll perturb the symptom out of immediate existence. I agree
that that is, at best, a last resort - but I see nothing wrong with
swapping out a bad board, once you're sure it's the board that's bad,
any more than I do for any other swappable piece. (Whether it's worth
repairing a board depends on lots of things; sometimes, swapping and
tossing the bad one is a right answer.)
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