Coworker's HP L1955 let out a thin stream of acrid smoke and stopped working the other day. Pulled the Benq 48.L1A02.A00 inverter board (at least I assume that's what it is from reading other posts on this truly educational forum). One of the surface mount chips on the copper side of the board (there appear to be two identical pairings of this chip with a large surface mount cap or resistor) was fried to a crisp and copper traces had lifted.

I'm concerned about trying to repair the board since, if it should then burn the building down, my name will be either "mud" or "arsonist"...