Greetings, That's one of those things that sounds easy enough in theory, but in practice isn't.
I would strongly recommend hiring someone to take care of that for you. G'day, sjames 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 > > -- -------------------------steven james, director of research, linux labs ... ........ ..... .... 230 peachtree st nw ste 2701 the original linux labs atlanta.ga.us 30303 -since 1995 http://www.linuxlabs.com office 404.577.7747 fax 404.577.7743 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
