[FreeEnterprise]

Here are the pics I took of the motherboard.



see the chrome plate that covers the main chip. The maxim 1987 chip is right between that and the mounting screw plate where the heat sink attaches.

Here is a close up of the problem chip. Yes, it has a gazillion posts that are the size of dust... So file down your soldering iron down to a pin point if you want to try this.


See the chip, right above the half hole ^^

That half hole is where the heatsink screws into the motherboard, which is flexed by the LCD screen opening and closing. So make sure you put some oil in the hinges and get them moving better or else it will just do the same thing again...

I would bet you could just do the pins next to the mounting chip instead of all the pins, but since it is such a pain to get in there, I just went ahead and resoldered every pin...