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 -- http://www.hailfinger.org/ _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
