[flashrom] disaster

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

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

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