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

sales at bradbrown.com sales at bradbrown.com
Wed Dec 28 14:55:56 CET 2005


  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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