Yes — a good share of our bench work arrives that way. Most quotes for a dead board are quotes to replace the whole board, because that is the repair route available to whoever assessed it; component-level diagnosis under a microscope is a different discipline and it often finds a cheaper real fault. When we can trace the failure to one component, the repair is frequently a fraction of the replacement price. We’re honest in the other direction too: severe liquid corrosion, several failed chips, or physical damage across the board can genuinely make a repair uneconomic, and when that’s what we find we say so rather than run up a bill proving it. Even then, we can usually get your files off the machine — see
data recovery.