There are quite a few places who will do it for you. BTW inc. comes to mind. Probably cost you 20 bucks. But if you have some soldering pliers, and aren't worried about losing a board if you really muck it up, it's worth a try.
Brian G Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1 612-741-1191 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
