Re: [OT] Good quality hair dryer needed for Squeeze
On Mon, 2012-12-10 at 17:25 -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Mark writes:
> > Any ideas guys?
>
> You may find that pressing down or prying up on that part of the board
> works as well as does the dryer. Inspect the suspicious area of the
> MOBO carefully with a magnifying glass and then fix the crack or bad
> solder joint.
+1
Use a chopstick to press.
The OP should be experienced with soldering multi-layer boards.
Surface-mounted device aren't an issue, but solder joints might be
plated-through by vias
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/57/Via_Types.svg/220px-Via_Types.svg.png . Without experiences the vias can lose their connections.
Hth,
Ralf
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