[jan-jaap]

Preheat the board and you'll find the reflow will be much easier.

Not only that, if there's any moisture in the PCB it may turn to steam when you pass it through a reflow oven and tear up the PCB.

[jan-jaap]

Alas the striping is so bad it makes text too unreadable, not worth running the ide tests as it is.

Sure, in this case the result will probably (hopefully!) be a test fail. The normal test would say "GFX BOARD FAILED" and we know that already, thanks. But the FE tests are verbose so if it fails e.g. a bitplane memory compare test you know where to start looking.

I always run the diagnostics over a serial console, so I can capture the output for future reference. That and a sticker on the ESD bag with test date / result / part# / serial# so I can always look up what happened and what the status of a part is. This is part of my long-term goal of reducing my spare parts to a set of known good parts, relevant to the systems I own.

[mapesdhs]

My point was that one cannot even read the text.

Ian.