Thanks for the info. :)
I checked at the fuse and it was getting ~17v so I decided to go for broke and try out the heat gun method that theshahofiran mentioned earlier in this thread. I used a double layer of heavy duty foil (with a cutout for the chip) as a heat shield and put a quarter on...
I don't see it on the list exactly, but recently the XHD3000 that I bought in November 2008 stopped displaying anything at all. (I wonder if this an advanced case of logic board failure.) When it happened I thought that the monitor was in some kind of power saving status, but nothing showed on...