On Sat, Oct 05, 2019 at 09:31:08PM -0600, Patrick Rogers wrote:
Hello Ray,
The hardware that you would need is something called a BIOS programmer. Usually they use a USB port and might be found cheaply online. Flashrom has a list of supported programmers:
https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#External_flashers.2Fprogrammers
My suggestion would be to purchase a Raspberry Pi, which is a cheap Linux computer that has builtin hardware support needed to flash ROMs. It might be less trouble and more easier to get. The Pi, microSD card, case, breadboard jumper cables and breadboard (for easier seating of BIOS chip) may cost around $50 USD.
I'm going to be doing to BIOS work with a high risk of bricking the device I am working on. In the end I decided to grab one of the cheap CH341A programmers of eBay, partly because the various tutorial videos on YouTube were confidence inspiring and partly because it looked much easier to set up physically then doing a bunch of work with hook up wire.
I can't offer any real world experience about its performance at this stage since I'm still waiting for the brickable device to arrive but, as I said, the YouTube tutorials were useful here.
Daniel.
On 2019-10-05 2:40 p.m., ray@ineedageek.us wrote:
HI, I know this might be a noob question but Im trying to setup for flashing different kind of rom files and I need to purchase the hardware to do so. I am looking to flashing motherboards and other rom devices. Can you please guide me into buying the proper hardware or if you sell it I would gladly buy it from you. Thank you.
Ray Alemozafar
The Computer Shop
22750 Roscoe Blvd. Unit A
West Hills, CA 91304
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