Re: [LinuxBIOS] SPI flash-chips [Re: state of Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4]

[Anton]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:33:26 +0100
Quux  wrote:
> Anton schrieb:
> > > 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.
> desolder the chip & put in a socket
> use some sort of "top hat flash" look-alike (not yet available)
> possibly make use of the other unpopulated DUAL BIOS contacts
>
> (unknown whether it works)

No, I'm not owner of that board ;-)
Just curious, what to do if I'll spoil genuine code in SPI-flash (say,
in modern boards). Again, this is *not* PLCC32.