Quote Originally Posted by wildeh View Post
I guess I'll try this too on my display-dead Acer Aspire. The graphics chip is non removable. I wonder can I bake the whole mobo or should I take off some components first?

Or should I just get a hairdryer?

edit: and by the way, any idea on identifying which chip is the graphics chip?
Do you know what kind of graphics chipset you have? If it is nVidia or ATi, they'll be very clearly labeled.

You don't necessarily have to remove anything, but anything EASILY removed (especially plastic) is something you'll want to do.

A hair dryer probably won't get up to temps.