A bit OT: external equipment for writing...

[Antony Stone]

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 1:09 pm, Vic Berdin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This maybe the wrong list to post this but since you guys are into
> the field of creating your own BIOSware, I would like to ask if
> anyone knows of a device or equipment (connected via stadard PC port)
> that may be used in order to write data into a BIOS chip?

BIOS chips are standard flash parts - a commercial flash programmer will do 
the job (but don't expect such a machine to be cheap).

Failing that, you could try using the DOS-based flash programming utility 
provided by the vendor of your motherboard?   That can write new BIOS images 
into the chip (in-place on the motherboard) - it's worth seeing if it'll 
write an arbitrary binary file for you.

Also, the MTD utilities may be able to help you out.

Regards,

Antony.

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