Hi,
I have a motherboard that I would like to get linuxbios working on. Unfortunately, it has a TSOP flash part that is soldered directly onto it. I am concerned that if I write to the flash I may turn the unit into a "brick".
Has anyone had any experience with removing a surface mounted flash TSOP part, and replacing it with a ZIF socket? If I understand it correctly, I should be able to heat up the leads of the current flash (melting the existing solder), extract the flash part, then solder on a zif socket (http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/), and then finally use an eprom programmer on the existing tsop flash chip if it ever gets flashed incorrectly. Is this correct - anyone here done this before? Is this procedure very tricky (can one new to soldering expect to succeed at it)?
Any advice would be appreciated, -Kevin