* Uwe Hermann uwe@hermann-uwe.de [070312 14:46]:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:12:37PM +0100, ST wrote:
Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:23 schrieb Stefan Reinauer:
- ST st@iss.tu-darmstadt.de [070312 11:58]:
Since i don't have an modern flash programmer (and this version of the gigabyte doesn't have a dual bios) i am afraid to "brick" this mainboard.
Does it have a socketed bios chip?
No, it doesn't but it seems to me as if the place for a dual bios chip is printed but not used. It seems to be a serial chip since it has not so many pins. At first i really thought this MB had a dual bios :-(.
Yes. You can always use "flashrom" from the LinuxBIOS tree to flash back the proprietary BIOS (given you can still boot Linux ;)
Ok, that sounds good.
Be careful. One you bricked the original BIOS you will _not_ be able to boot Linux (or a DOS disk or whatever), so you will _not_ be able to reflash the BIOS...
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...