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Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:51 pm
by sulbert
Came across this thing today when I was reading a review of an ECS Photon series board. This is how it looks like - two PLCC sockets and a small PCB between them:
Does anyone have hands-on experience (or whatever they call it...) with that device?[/url]
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:52 pm
by Rainbow
Something like IOSS BIOS Savior
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:21 pm
by sulbert
Not quite. It's meant for recovering boards with soldered BIOS chips (patented by ECS). AFAIK BIOS savior is only usable on boards with socketed flash chips...
I guess this thing only works with some ECS boards - some additional hardware (probaly cheaper than a socket...) on a board is needed for this thing to function IMHO.
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 2:38 pm
by Rainbow
Looks interesting... Can anyone examine that?
Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:47 pm
by KachiWachi
It almost looks like 2 sockets back-to-back and slipped over the bad chip...but that wouldn't work unless you isolated the bad chip somehow so the good chip could take over...
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 4:49 am
by Ritchie
I am wondering if it could be some kind of heatsink or cooling system, except that heat would probably not be released from between two chips in that way.
Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:06 am
by sulbert