On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:48:03PM -0700, Bario wrote: > > I'll try to take a quick look. Does it have a socketed bios > > part? > > No, it (unfortunately) doesn't, it's a TSOP. However, I have > another of the exact same board that, if necessary, the bios chip > can be scavenged off and sodiered to the first board (the other > board has a broken handle on the zif socket). Has anyone ever tried > installing a switch for easy swapping back and forth between bios > chips?
The simplest way would be to just piggyback all pins of chip 2, except /CE, onto chip 1, then lift chip 1 /CE from the mainboard and have a switch for selecting either chip 1 /CE or chip 2 /CE to connect to the mainboard, possibly with pull-up resistors on both chips. (ideally only the one not selected) Beware that TSOP packages demand very skilled soldering. //Peter -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
