i think not. and it didn't work for the guy in the article.

anyway, i've succeeded, with a joint solution. there are two chips above the bigger one with the 'ati' label, and the right one remained sensitive to the touch. if i pressed down on it, the machine would boot normally. otherwise just blank screen. so i thought hey, i could put a copper plate between the heatsink and the chip while it's still hot, this way keeping it under a little pressure permanently. and it worked. i can toss it around, turn it upside down, it 'just' works now. the only problem is that this way the cpu runs 10-20C higher than normal, but i can live with that. maybe i'll put some more thermal paste in between sometime.

so i was just starting to get optimistic and happy, began to copy some music, pictures, useful apps onto the ibook when boom.. my hard drive died. now it refuses to do anything, i don't even get a sad mac or anything, since the machine can't even initialise it. it makes an annoying clicking sound, too.

i guess i'm just out of luck. next time i'll try to pick up a cheap ide hard drive (if they're still selling them, lol) and a gig of memory. right now it only has the onboard 256 megs.

thanks for all the help, i couldn't have done it without you.