[LinuxBIOS] SPI flash-chips [Re: state of Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4]

[Quux]

Anton schrieb:
> > 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...
>
> What are the means for recovering from faulty writes into SPI
> flash-chip? Chip is not socketed ;) Moreover, it is soldered.

1. desolder the chip & put in a socket
2. use some sort of "top hat flash" look-alike (not yet available)
3. possibly make use of the other unpopulated DUAL BIOS contacts 
(unknown whether it works)