I had the blank screen problem with the x3 1959 bios and i resoldered a million times and the problem was never fixed, but when the new x3 bios x3 2913 came out i tried it and it worked perfectly. I don't know if this helps anybody of helps to understand what the problem was, but that is what happened in my case. Im just happy i got a x3 bios to work!
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