Hello there,
I guess I have just ruined my computer. I was trying flashrom under Ubuntu 10.04. All seemed to have gone well. I turned off my PC, but...well, you surely know the rest of the story. I cannot find any way of getting it to start. Any ideas that may help me will be very much appreciated.
By the way, my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
I look forward to your reply.
Julio
Am Mittwoch, den 19.05.2010, 22:57 +0100 schrieb Julio Barrios:
I guess I have just ruined my computer. I was trying flashrom under Ubuntu 10.04. All seemed to have gone well. I turned off my PC, but...well, you surely know the rest of the story. I cannot find any way of getting it to start. Any ideas that may help me will be very much appreciated.
By the way, my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
For those not following the IRC channel: Julio played around with flashrom and erased without really knowing what he was doing. So the PC does not start because there is no BIOS anymore in that computer. The flashchip is soldered, making replacement harder.
IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip on top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still has the link?
Regards, Michael Karcher
On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 19.05.2010, 22:57 +0100 schrieb Julio Barrios:
I guess I have just ruined my computer. I was trying flashrom under Ubuntu 10.04. All seemed to have gone well. I turned off my PC, but...well, you surely know the rest of the story. I cannot find any way of getting it to start. Any ideas that may help me will be very much appreciated.
By the way, my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
For those not following the IRC channel: Julio played around with flashrom and erased without really knowing what he was doing. So the PC does not start because there is no BIOS anymore in that computer. The flashchip is soldered, making replacement harder.
IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip on top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still has the link?
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 19.05.2010, 22:57 +0100 schrieb Julio Barrios:
I guess I have just ruined my computer. I was trying flashrom under Ubuntu 10.04. All seemed to have gone well. I turned off my PC, but...well, you surely know the rest of the story. I cannot find any way of getting it to start. Any ideas that may help me will be very much appreciated.
By the way, my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
For those not following the IRC channel: Julio played around with flashrom and erased without really knowing what he was doing. So the PC does not start because there is no BIOS anymore in that computer. The flashchip is soldered, making replacement harder.
IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip on top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still has the link?
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board and thus has a lower risk.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
Hi Julio,
please note that the method in the link can destroy your mainboard if your flash chip uses a different interface (very likely). See below for details.
On 20.05.2010 09:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip on top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still has the link?
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board and thus has a lower risk.
The best way to figure this out is to find out which flash chip you have and tell us. Then we can try to find out which pins need to be bent and disconnected.
Regards, Carl-Daniel
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