> Glad to hear it worked, how I wish the chips came in sockets, they are > a pig to change without hot air equipment. > Ben. Agreed and seconded 100%. I don't do very much on PLCC packages very much except to "cook" the PCB atop piece of 3/8" scrap Al on stove coil, temperature carefully controlled, yes can be done. Avoided this unless I have no choice and that PLCC part is only one in the whole junkyard. Two boards: Millennium and a scrap board both were soldered on. I had to use solder wick on that scrap board and break loose the J leads on that chip. On Mill, I just simply cut it off and remove lead remains. Solder it in by hand. One I cannot do anything is BGA type. I have no problems on any gull wing types including that removing two 601 cpus by hand w/ homemade tool. This tool is made out of a Xacto handle clamped to a piece of fine spring wire. Very end of that tool is bent sharply "L". this is just enough to hook JUST one leg, touching both leg and PCB, melt solder and drag the tool along the pad and through, this lifts the leg a tad and hopefully solder freezes first before leg springs back. This is very successfully done on many SMD ICs for years. BTW, hot air rework station is megabucks and takes up too much space in my one bedroom of parent's apt. No, I'm not just young man, I'm 28, soon 29 less than a week away. I think Matrox's Mac driver is flawed. I got bits of vertical strips at certain colors 256 lines pinstripes, thousands, bit of vertical lines, millions rare few. That mill was pc and works flawlessly. Cheers, Wizard -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
