Re: [LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte's DualBios and recovery from a botched Linuxbiosflash?

I think I'll go with the replacement ZIF socket as described by Bari.  I
had no idea it was that easy to remove a TSOP device, so that approach
never occured to me.

I would consider another motherboard with socketed bios, but given the
price constraints I'm forced to work in (sub $100, NForce4), it seems that
most boards in that range have TSOP bioses.

Also, I wanted to re-read the FAQ portions regarding flashing, but keep
receiving a "A database query syntax error has occurred" error when I click
on the FAQ link on the main LinuxBios.org website.  I could not find a
contact email (the help link was broken as well), so could one of you relay
a "FAQ is down" message to the website maintainer?

Thanks,
Brad Brown

Bari Ari wrote:
> If there is enough room around the tsop flash device on the mainboard, 
> the flash device may be replaced by a ZIF tsop socket. Such as one by:
>
> http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/
>
> http://www.emulation.com/pdf/skt518.pdf
>
> The tsop zif sockets are larger than the tsop package so you need the 
> extra space to solder them in place.
>
> -Bari

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[LinuxBIOS] Gigabyte's DualBios and recovery from a botched Linuxbiosflash?

[Richard Smith]

On 12/28/05, [e-mail]  wrote:
> I think I'll go with the replacement ZIF socket as described by Bari.  I
> had no idea it was that easy to remove a TSOP device, so that approach
> never occured to me.

Well its not quite as easy as the picture looks.  But its not too
hard.  Our techs ususally use a heat gun.  What they show in the
ChipQuick picture is not a TSOP but the same principal applies.