I have a heat gun so I think I should be able to get it working. I did plenty of research ahead of time to see what could be done. One guy even suggested bending a couple brackets to help keep the chips in place.

The heat gun, cooling compound and flux cost me about $40 US. Far better than paying $150 to have it fixed ... and I will have all the stuff I need if it happens again. In a year or two.

Too bad you couldn't get a heat gun ... that seems to be the only real way to get this problem fixed. You need about 400C when using flux ... you wont get that from a hairdryer.