Post by: sollie7 on June 21, 2009, 12:15:00 PM
pretty crazy it would be cool if it worked
Post by: ron6399 on June 21, 2009, 01:15:00 PM
QUOTE(sollie7 @ Jun 21 2009, 02:15 PM) 
yup pretty funny, and I guess it works but I would still use my heatgun, and some shielding on the board to do just a small area. The problem with the 360 is you can't tipically pinpoint the bad solder joint which is why the heating is done to the most logical area. Yes you could take the approach and do just the gpu chip but it seems we do a larger area as a catch all. Doing the larger area has worked for me 3 times so far. All kidding aside I read tons and tons of posts on alot of sites and took the data and came to my own conclusions. I just concentrate in the gpu area, above and below on the bottom of the board. Its worked so far , I'm not saying its the fix all and I would modify my procedure if I didn't fix the issue. Just remember 1 thing , the more area you heat the more chance to create another problem, this is why I do only the bottom first and do not apply to the chips themselves, just the solder joints, and caps and components under the gpu. I let the heated area cool then test, I haven't had to reheat anything yet but I don't do tons of boards like some guys do.