On Fri, 2 Mar 2001, Josh Straub wrote: > - is this flash chip completely ruined? maybe not. I've done this more times than I like to think about. > - would most likely any pentium "PCI/PNP 586" flash chip work as a > substitute? Is there a way to tell if it's 5V or 12V flash? What happens > if you mix the 2 up? I doubt "just any' chip will work, unless it's for the same motherboard. > - How do you tell the correct orientation? well, you found one way to do it :-) There is an outline around the socket. If you look, it is a straight line at one and, and a line with a 'u' in it at the other end. The 'u' corresponds to the little 'u' on the chip itself. > - is the motherboard ruined completely? probably not. > - is there a better way than pulling the flash ROM chips with those > extremely flimsy little metal pins, and plugging them back in? This is an > operation that seems to be reproducable once, maybe twice, with any given > ROM chip before you permanently bust the pins. You need to get a DIP-32 ZIF socket, try jameco or other parts warehouse. POST cards: I don't remember the URL right now, somebody else probably can help. ron
