Re: Vizio M43-C1 No Backlights

Hello all, just joined the forum and found this post very helpful! I was able to successfully "reflow" my main board's 2 brains with a heat gun without removing the stubborn soldered on heat shield/sink. I just pointed the heat gun straight down at the chip locations about an inch off the surface of the huge black heat sink, and held it there at full blast (an advertised 600F) for 45 seconds each.

At first I was disappointed because the TV didn't turn on right away, but the next morning it turned on and was all good! I'm guessing...