RE: [cobalt-users] Bad accident :-( Flashed RaQ4r-ROM. Help

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I don't know if this would help your situation, but there is 
> a trick to get things going.
> 
> First of all you need a healthy RAQ4 unit in working 
> condition. Second of all, the RAQ4 restore CD must ask for a 
> flash upgrade also.
> 
> What we used to do with "normal" pc's is the following: 
> 1) boot the working PC up and run the flash upgrade program 
> until the moment the program asks for confirmation of writing 
> the flash.
> 2) then we pulled the flash rom simply out of the mainboard, 
> and put the faulty rom in place. This is possible becourse 
> most pc units do a rom bios cache in memory so after booting 
> the actual rom is not needed.
> 3) confirm overwriting the flash, and voila: one extra healthy rom 

Is this something you have actually done with a RaQ or is with a PC -
one of the initial problems seems to be identifying the rom on the RaQ
it doesn't seem to be a removable chip like the Qube2 used to be.

Gavin