On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:53:43 -0400 Ward Vandewege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:50:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > > On 12.03.2007 16:29, Ward Vandewege wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:22:12PM +0800, Anton wrote: > > >> What are the means for recovering from faulty writes into SPI > > >> flash-chip? Chip is not socketed ;) Moreover, it is soldered. > > > > > > De-solder the chip, and put a socket on it. Richard Smith helped me out > > > with > > > that, we now have one m57sli-s4 board with a socket instead of the > > > soldered-on chip. Requires quite a bit of skill and some good equipment > > > though (heat-pencil or heat-gun and a good soldering iron). > > > > Anton wrote about SPI (SOIC) flash, not LPC/FWH (PLCC32) flash. Are > > there really matching sockets out there? > > Yeah, sorry, my bad :( I was referring to LPC (PLCC32). I don't know anything > about SPI. O'k. Does anyone common w/ SPI flashing / BIOS Saviour tools out there? -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
