Hi Kevin. I am skeptical that a beginner solderer could pull that off. It's very very tiny work. However, a couple of us have contacted the following gentleman, and his company gets the job done well and cheaply (expect to pay a few hundred, which is preferred to a few dead motherboards).
Henry Ho of Century Technology, Inc. hho * century-technology * com 650 583 8908 There's no problem using an eprom programmer if you write a bad flash, but its easier to just have a spare tsop flash chip (intel firmware hubs and standard flash chips aren't interchangable however). - Adam Agnew On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Kevin O'Connor wrote: > Hi, > > I have a motherboard that I would like to get linuxbios working on. > Unfortunately, it has a TSOP flash part that is soldered directly onto it. > I am concerned that if I write to the flash I may turn the unit into a > "brick". > > Has anyone had any experience with removing a surface mounted flash TSOP > part, and replacing it with a ZIF socket? If I understand it correctly, I > should be able to heat up the leads of the current flash (melting the > existing solder), extract the flash part, then solder on a zif socket > (http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/sockets/tsop/), > and then finally use an eprom programmer on the existing tsop flash chip if > it ever gets flashed incorrectly. Is this correct - anyone here done this > before? Is this procedure very tricky (can one new to soldering expect to > succeed at it)? > > Any advice would be appreciated, > -Kevin > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | Kevin O'Connor "BTW, IMHO we need a FAQ for | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'IMHO', 'FAQ', 'BTW', etc. !" | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
