On 12.03.2007 16:57, Anton wrote:
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:53:43 -0400 Ward Vandewege ward@gnu.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 04:50:18PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 12.03.2007 16:29, Ward Vandewege wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 11:22:12PM +0800, Anton wrote:
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).
Anton wrote about SPI (SOIC) flash, not LPC/FWH (PLCC32) flash. Are there really matching sockets out there?
Yeah, sorry, my bad :( I was referring to LPC (PLCC32). I don't know anything about SPI.
O'k. Does anyone common w/ SPI flashing / BIOS Saviour tools out there?
Easiest would be to desolder the CE# "chip enable" pin, connect it to high level, attach a SPI chip with known-good image on top of it and connect CE# of the new chip to the board.
Regards, Carl-Daniel