On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:33:26 +0100 Quux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anton schrieb: > >> 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. > 1. desolder the chip & put in a socket > 2. use some sort of "top hat flash" look-alike (not yet available) > 3. possibly make use of the other unpopulated DUAL BIOS contacts > (unknown whether it works)
No, I'm not owner of that board ;-) Just curious, what to do if I'll spoil genuine code in SPI-flash (say, in modern boards). Again, this is *not* PLCC32. -- linuxbios mailing list linuxbios@linuxbios.org http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios