On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 03:41:55PM +0100, Joep Jansen wrote:
I looked at the BIOS Savior, but it will do not good since the flash chip is a TSOP, directly soldered to the board. The "piggyback" trick seems the most viable solution, but it will requilre some skill and good equipment ;-).
That's not a lot of fun for TSOP packages. Perhaps your time would be worth getting a TSOP in-circuit adapter that you just put on top of the TSOP while reprogramming.
Or maybe these TSOP production sockets are a good compromise:
http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/
//Peter