Waiting for the replacement chip, i had lots of time to desolder the faulty VIDEL ...
Nearly all chips on a Falcon030 Motherboard are surface mounted and the VIDEL is no exception to that.
I feared to ruin the motherboard with my amateur soldering, but someone had to do it ;-)
I used my solderingiron with a fine tip, heated one pin at a time and used a needle to lift the pin up.
The process took ages, my eyes where getting weary ... but then i could remove the entire chip.
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