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

["Wim Dieke" <w.dieke@xxxxxxxxx>]

> > 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.

This is what we have done with normal standard PC's. If a RAQ does not have a removable rom, then the trick won't work.
KR,
Wim