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Originally Posted by Switch_ View Post
Believe it or not 2 hours in the oven set at 180 - 200 deg C would reflow that enough to make the contacts good again. Did the same with an old 8800Ultra Superclocked graphics card once, worked a treat, but once a BGA is gone it's gone, end of really. The 8800 worked a treat for the next two months before it all went tits up again.

To be honest it looks like the BGA on that is too far gone anyways - reflow may cause shorting across the balls if you got a proper liquid reflow on it.
I know it can be done, but the thought of putting the whole board in the oven doesn't sit well with me. Certain components would definitely have to be removed (camera, keyboard sticker thing, but that would probably have to be replaced anyway...), plus I'm worried about flow it might cause at the other solder joints.

If anything, the existing solder on the chip/board would need to be cleaned away and it would have to be reballed. But it would not be easy.