On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 14:57:56 +0100 Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070312 14:46]: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:12:37PM +0100, ST wrote: > > > Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:23 schrieb Stefan Reinauer: > > > > * ST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070312 11:58]: > > > > > Since i don't have an modern flash programmer (and this version of the > > > > > gigabyte doesn't have a dual bios) i am afraid to "brick" this > > > > > mainboard. > > > > > > > > Does it have a socketed bios chip? > > > No, it doesn't but it seems to me as if the place for a dual bios chip is > > > printed but not used. It seems to be a serial chip since it has not so > > > many > > > pins. At first i really thought this MB had a dual bios :-(. > > > > Yes. You can always use "flashrom" from the LinuxBIOS tree to flash back > > > > the proprietary BIOS (given you can still boot Linux ;) > > > Ok, that sounds good. > > > > Be careful. One you bricked the original BIOS you will _not_ be able to > > boot Linux (or a DOS disk or whatever), so you will _not_ be able to > > reflash the BIOS... > > According to this picture, some of the boards obviously have a bios > socket. How can we find out where to get those instead of the > soldered-only boards? > http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/pila/am2/gigabyte-ga-m57sli-s4/plyta-gora.jpg What are the means for recovering from faulty writes into SPI flash-chip? Chip is not socketed ;) Moreover, it is soldered. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
