On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 23:10, Ward Vandewegeward@gnu.org wrote:
If you don't mind sacrificing the current chip, you could just cut it off and replace it with a socket. See
http://www.coreboot.org/Soldering_a_socket_on_your_board#Cutting_the_chip
Another one I've used in the past, if you're REALLY careful about it you can use an xacto knife or similar to "liberate" the chip from the board, essentially you push the tip of the knife into junction of the solder and the leg you can usually "cut" the solder, solder is relatively soft in comparison to the leg so you're usually OK on that front (and even if you do sever the leg towards the bottom chances are you can still use the chip in a socket) however there is more scope to damage the tracks/pads on the mainboard (That said, I'm not sure whether lead-free solder is as easy to "cut" as leaded solder), I used to use this trick to safely extract RAM chips off RAM sticks to make a double sided module out two single sided ones ;oD