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

Bari Ari bari at onelabs.com
Wed Dec 28 07:07:02 CET 2005


David Hendricks wrote:

> Or, I think someone on this list (Bari Ari?) can modify your board to
> use socketed flash parts as well.

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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