Need help at component level - A1200 Paula

[Dr_Righteous]

As I've mentioned before, I have a couple of A1200 boards I'm trying to get running.

The one board I have that boots at all seems to have a problem stemming from Paula... FDD unrecognized, DF0: on the WB desktop...

Paula is getting quite warm in a short period of time... A few minutes later, black (sometimes messed up) screen, system locks.

I've checked the voltages with a DVM, and everything looks fine as far as that goes, so my guess is it's Paula herself.

My question is twofold:

1. Does anyone know an inexpensive method of extracting and replacing the 13x13 PLCC?

2. Will the A1200 run without Paula, if I were to just cut it off the board for the time being? (Obviously I'd lose FDD, Mouse/Joystick and Audio... But I can get by with a serial mouse and maybe get a Catweasel)

[Dr_Righteous]

@Castellen
Thank you for the serious response...

I would love to get my hands on some SMD equipment, alas I haven't the funds at the moment.

I think what I'll try is cutting the legs off with my Dremel and desoldering them one-by-one... Then solder in a 52 pin PLCC socket.

I'll definately have a look at the CIA's tho... I didn't even think about checking them out while I was at it.

On slight tangent... I ran across this method of creating a hot air pencil, as opposed to the "flame-thrower" approach... It sounds feasable. Any thoughts?

[Dr_Righteous]

Dental pick? Did you use the iron to heat the pick or just pull the leads up off the board?