On 10/08/2012 08:43, Brian Gaff wrote:
I'd have thought this outcome was pretty obvious. think about the soldering.
When its done its fast and localised to the parts needed to be soldered. One
cannot heat the whole card up and expect it to survive.


Brian

Modern, surface mount components can actually be glued in place with a
solder paste and then the whole board heated to melt it. You can buy
special ovens for doing it or convert an ordinary worktop oven with
external control to ramp and hold the temperature at controlled rates.
It would not therefore be suprising that a fix might work by baking the
board in an ordinary oven, however the poor control may well damage
components unless you are lucky.

SteveW