Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Abit AV8? Suggestion for AM2 board?

[Ronald G Minnich]

Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Uwe Hermann  writes:
> > It's not as bad as I probably made it sound :) The risk to damage your
> > board is very very small, AFAIK. The worst that can usually happen is
> > that you overwrite your BIOS chip with a bogus image and cannot boot
> > anymore. Or put it in the socket the wrong way(which I did once), in
> > which case it'll get pretty hot and will probably be damaged (usually
> > only the chip though, but not your board).
>
> Are you suggesting to hotswap the chip?

that's how we have burned flash here for 7 years now

ron