Well, I search a bit where the #init comes with no luck, it seems to get down into the deep blue sea :), it seems to come from inner layers of the board. I would like to be on a mistake but ...
Another option, cut the pin, uffff, but with which tool?, and worst, cut without broking any of the halves of the pin. Time to lunch, :) I am going to start cutting the bread first, later we will see, bye. On 4/12/07, Beth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all again (hi ST, yes I am Jose, Beth is a long story :D, some day ...). > > Well one week of holidays, half other with a lot of work and some days > without batteries on the multimeter ..., I am back. > > Well I am a bit "disconnected", but, ST are you still interested on > that I check the pins of the second socket?. > > What about your discoveries about the #init pin? > > And talking about the #init, guys, have you seen the mail from Luis Correia??: > > >after some time being absent from here while attending o some other > >pressing issues, i'm back to LinuxBIOS :) > > >My NOVA-4899R needs a proper bios and I'm confident that this time it > >would get better. > > >But as always, problem is swapping the BIOS with enough confidence. > >After ruining onf my my precious BIOS chips, I decided on a radical > >approach. > > >Here is the photo (sorry for the hosting), and the explanation follows: > >http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/7942/detail01hd8.jpg > > >This is composed of a BIOS with a PLCC socket soldered on top (all > >pins except #CE) > > >Then, the #CE signal is intercepted and routed to a switch, which in > >turn selects the upper or lower chip. > > >After the first boot and using uniflash as a detecting software for > >the parts, only one of the chips was correctly identified. Then it > >struct me that while one chip was connected to the controller, the > >other had the pin 'free floating'. This was solved by pulling the two > >#CE pins from the flash devices to +5V. > > >This is a very dumb rig, but hey, it works. > > >I haven't flashed any on the chips yet, but now uniflash does detect > >them correctly. > > >I'll be offline until the 20th but after that i'll try to post more > >detailed pictures of it, along with a proper schematics. > > >Thanks for listeing to all this crap :) > > >Luis Correia > > It's like my friend's idea but correctly done (I didn't realized that > leaving vcc out will leave the pins "floating"). It seems to work, we > don't have #ce pin, but will work on the same way our #init pin. > Yesterday I received the new bios chip and a plcc socket so I will try > it, first if you give me the ok (jejeje), I must find from where the > #pin comes, cut and insert the switch to the chips ... > > Another thing, ST, I bought the chip, an extraction tool and a socket > from http://bios-repair.co.uk/ , I had a very fluid communication and > no problems at all with Paul. > > And, nothing more, see you. Regards. > -- --------------------------------------------------- José Antonio Robles [EMAIL PROTECTED] 661 960 119 Sometimes something happens ... --------------------------------------------------- -- linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios