Re: [LinuxBIOS] Support for Abit AV8? Suggestion for AM2 board?

[Johan Rydberg]

Uwe Hermann  writes:
> It's not as bad as I probably made it sound :) The risk to damage your
> board is very very small, AFAIK. The worst that can usually happen is
> that you overwrite your BIOS chip with a bogus image and cannot boot
> anymore. Or put it in the socket the wrong way(which I did once), in
> which case it'll get pretty hot and will probably be damaged (usually
> only the chip though, but not your board).

Are you suggesting to hotswap the chip?

~j