I don't know whether this can be called "best practice" on mainbords, but with a handle super glued to those SST 49LF040 I repeatedly hot-unplugged a badly flashed (non working) flash and then used flashrom to reflash it. it worked all the time. Even an 8 Mbit piece 49LF080A works with the Asus a8ne, so maybe a kernel may be squeezed in there as well.
thus, no need for an external eprommer :-) --Q
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