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[Wilhelm_I]

QUOTE(scuba156 @ May 6 2008, 04:28 PM)

willhelm, please limit the size of your pictures, or if there going to be that big, provide a link. there are 56k users still left in the world and not everyone likes scrolling to read other posts.

IMHO, baking it in the oven is just about as bad as the towel trick, unless done very very carefully its likely to kill something. a hatgun is always a better method, and can be found cheaper than $60.

 what transistor blew? it might be best if you take a scan (using a scanner or just use a camara) of both sides of the motherboard and post them here.

i suspect your original problem was way too much thermal paste, just like someone else said. the thermal paste should be spread very thinly and applied to the die only

I cant edit my post actually...
Sorry about that but my resolution is 1600x1200 so it didnt look that big and making it tinier would have made it harder to see the marked area.
Additonally the host scaled the picture up which is quite retarded as you can now see each pixel.
It would be nice if you could edit my post and replace the IMG-tags with that