Rolling Meadows, Ill. — BEST Inc. has introduced a RoHS-compliant printed-circuit-board (PCB) pad repair kit with a large selection of different pad sizes and tools. It also includes “how-to” slides.

My low-end “traveling” laptop PC died after nearly five years. The symptom was obvious: it wouldn’t start up when I pushed the “soft” power button on the side. The fact that it had finally gone to ...