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

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 20 July 2002 05:23 pm, Wim Dieke wrote:
> 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
>
Good try, but the flash rom on the RaQ4r is not socketd, and as far as I can 
tell it is not even a discrete ic. looks like it's part of one of the VLSI 
chips on the board

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