At Sat, 29 Jan 2011 18:43:10 -0800 (PST), Neo The User <neotheu...@ymail.com> wrote: > > > > The motherboard's chip is Winbond W25Q80, 1024 KB. > > > > I also have ASUS M3A78-EM mobo with chip "Macronix > > MX25L8005" (1024 KB, > > SPI). Is it a good idea to hot swap these chips to try to > > recover? Are they > > interchangeable? > > They are both serial flash devices and in theory, should work. I personally > have a MX25L8005 as well on my 785 board and it works fine with Flashrom. > > However keep in mind that the BIOS stored on the MX25L8005 will NOT work on > the ASRock board because the CPU sockets are different and among other > things, but when you re-flash the chips, the data is overwritten anyway with > whatever you just flashed it with.
Thank you very much for your response! I did hot swapping successfully and will now be able to boot anyways in case of disaster. I will also try to find identical backup chips for my motherboards to make recovery easier. -- coreboot mailing list: coreboot@coreboot.org http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
