Working with tsop flash

[steven james]

Greetings,

That's one of those things that sounds easy enough in theory, but in
practice isn't. 

I would strongly recommend hiring someone to take care of that for you.

G'day,
sjames



On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Kevin O'Connor wrote:

> 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
> 
> 

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