How to fix a Raspberry Pi 3 where the wifi chip is overheating

will this technique work on a pi 4?

can I remove the bigger wifi and bluetooth chip on the newer RPI 4 rev B?

You might want to use some Masking Tape to protect the other areas in case of contaminating and shorting circuit by soldering iron or

Congratulation - Thank you very much! You first time managed to physically remove this brain destroying irradiation threat off a RasPi and (more important) proved that it still will boot! Castrating such factory-prebugged all-in-one standard equipment is in many places mandatory for security and health reason.

Has anybody successfully eliminated wifi from modern routers? Mine ist limited to DSL 16k because there is nothing available (beside moonpriced lab equipment) that is not infested with this pulsed microwave disease.

My rpi3 is dead too due to wifi chip short circuit and reborn after chip being removed by air heater today. It seems that this version has some design problems

This video revived my 2 year old pi3. Thank you so much <3

Is it posible to remove the wifi/bt chip on the Raspberry Pi 3 A+? It is in another location under a metallic shield, and I would like to completely disable wiifi and bt by hardware.

My wifi doesnt work at all, the device boots up fine, clean install etc but no wlan0 found etc tried all tuts out there so I think the wifi chip is dead..

Thanks for the video =)

how i can fixed it in Raspberry Pi 4, it's Overheating

Shouldn’t you use flux first to loosen up the chip

Will it work with raspberry pizero w

So the real question is what caused the WiFi chip to start overheating to begin with? Faulty chip? Physical damage to the board that went unnoticed until it started randomly shutting down?

Tip: Next time use solder wick to remove the solder. Works much better. But be careful that you don't touch it to parts that you don't want to remove solder from.

Hello, My Pi heats up in the LAN Controller chip and only faint Red Led. Is there any fix for this? Pls Need Your Help.

Can u give us the link to those heatsinks on raspberry pi....they look cool😉

good work mate big up... my pi got overheating and the red light won't working ..only the green light blinking and few Second the pi shut down .. is it the wifi ??

did the wifi still work even though the chip was overheating?
also I wonder if it is possible to get that chip in small quantities from ebay or digikey, I doubt it though