Quoting Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:22:12PM +0800, Anton wrote:
According to this picture, some of the boards obviously have a bios socket. How can we find out where to get those instead of the soldered-only boards?
http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/pila/am2/gigabyte-ga-m57sli-s4/plyta-gora.j...
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).
Thanks, Ward.
-- Ward Vandewege ward@fsf.org Free Software Foundation - Senior System Administrator
Hello, I have socketed PLCC32's a bunch of times. It is not very hard. You just have to be very careful not to lift any pads or you may just end up with a big paperweight.
Thanks - Joe