18 Jul
2003
18 Jul
'03
5:16 p.m.
On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Dave Ashley wrote:
the BIOS and plug in a new one if something goes bad, and do the reverse to recover. I've fried 2 motherboards with my pliers rubbing out traces under the flashrom socket (good luck fixing that!).
you need to go to radioshack and get the flash part extractors. They are perfect for this.
Also, failing that, put dental floss under the chip when you install and and then you can lift it out (thanks to Steve James for this one).
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