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Well, you were right. I got 4 weeks out of it and it's bad again. I wasn't doing any graphics heavy stuff so i thought it might last longer. I guess I'll just have to replace the motherboard.

I've never done any soldering, but from what i gathered the solder points are the problem but they are under the GPU on the mother board. As I did more reading, some while my board was baking, i did see that the knowledgeable people were using a heat gun to do the reflow. I guess the oven...

Making a long story short ... If anybody has successfully brought a laptop back to life by baking the motherboard, how long has it lasted? OK, here's the long story...I have a Dell Vostro 1400 laptop with the NVidia Geforce 8400M GS video and a cuople weeks ago it started freezing a couple...