Re: [cobalt-users] Msg for Gerald Waugh - re fried BIOS on Raq4i

["Chris" <clathem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Thom LaCosta" <baltimoremd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] Msg for Gerald Waugh - re fried BIOS on Raq4i


> On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
>
> > Wasn't me -- I think it was Gerald.  Also, "pulling" it is The Tricky
> > Part -- it's not a socketed chip, it's soldered in place.
>
> Someone with a chip solderer/extractor would be wise to intall a socket on
> the motherboard and use a plug-in chip...unless of course they subscribe
> to the "Lightning Only strikes the same place once" theory.
>
> Of course that same person could have a nice "RaQ
> Motherboard/Upgrade/Buydead parts" business.
>
> thom

I'd have to agree with ya thom, but to pay someone to remove the chip,
socket the PCB, and then flash and drop the replacement chip into the socket
wouldn't be cheap... at least not if I were doing the soldering - those
things can be a pain to remove.

Chris


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