On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 07:36:32PM +0200, Svante Signell wrote:
for my hardware. The crucial thing is whether the BIOS chip is socketed or not. We'll see, at least I know the size is 2Mbit, since the latest BIOS binary (A6120IMS.200) supported by MSI is 261144kbyte. Does anybody have experience with removing a soldered chip on a motherboard without destroying anything?
Sure, both PLCC and DIL packages can be desoldered without any problems as long as it's possible/easy to access the chip physically on the board.
(A PLCC ROM tucked in close to e.g. a PCI slot is more problematic..)
After desoldering the ROM, it's quite possible to fit a socket there instead.
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//Peter