@win7mac
at the moment i can't say which is the "weight" of the problem we are facing until tomorrow Falk will make some tests while trying to restore the blade.

Then, while with your personal pc / board / laptop you can try whatever you want and any hack, any trick is done because you have nothing to loose, with servers you have to enter in a different perspective where you have to consider risks, best options, time to fix, quality of result and possibility to make more damages.

So, my reply is: i think that no one tries to remove a chip from a server mainboard without a spare board or without a warranty of result.