[LinuxBIOS] state of Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4

Stefan Reinauer stepan at coresystems.de
Mon Mar 12 14:57:56 CET 2007


* Uwe Hermann <uwe at hermann-uwe.de> [070312 14:46]:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:12:37PM +0100, ST wrote:
> > Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:23 schrieb Stefan Reinauer:
> > > * ST <st at iss.tu-darmstadt.de> [070312 11:58]:
> > > > Since i don't have an modern flash programmer (and this version of the
> > > > gigabyte doesn't have a dual bios) i am afraid to "brick" this mainboard.
> > >
> > > Does it have a socketed bios chip?
> > No, it doesn't but it seems to me as if the place for a dual bios chip is 
> > printed but not used. It seems to be a serial chip since it has not so many 
> > pins. At first i really thought this MB had a dual bios :-(. 
> > > Yes. You can always use "flashrom" from the LinuxBIOS tree to flash back
> > > the proprietary BIOS (given you can still boot Linux ;)
> > Ok, that sounds good. 
> 
> Be careful. One you bricked the original BIOS you will _not_ be able to
> boot Linux (or a DOS disk or whatever), so you will _not_ be able to
> reflash the BIOS...

According to this picture, some of the boards obviously have a bios
socket. How can we find out where to get those instead of the
soldered-only boards?
http://pclab.pl/zdjecia/artykuly/pila/am2/gigabyte-ga-m57sli-s4/plyta-gora.jpg


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