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I am glad you're asking this question (please also refer to MIT's "The
Hacker's dictionary / jargon file)<br>
<br>
"<b>to brick</b>" a router (for example) can be done by flashing
non-working firmware into it rendering it useless without chance for
reversal. It is an expensive door-stop, a brick, or a letter weight or
sth. low-tec after that.<br>
<br>
a "de-bricking" utility is one ( notorious is the debricking tool by a
guy who likes to call himself <b>"hairy dairy maid"</b> and used in
the openWRT router project, employing a JPEG hardware interface)<br>
<br>
pre-bricking thus might refer to a process where a mainboard is flashed
with a disfunctional BIOS image, thus bricking it - but where it is
done with a chance of reversal with further expenditure on additional
hard-soft/w<br>
it is only in a pre-brick state even though delivering the final
blow to it would not be much harder !<br>
<br>
--Q<br>
<br>
Robert Vogel schrieb:
<blockquote cite="mid:00fe01c7ea5e$679f7f80$0200a8c0@your55e5f9e3d2"
type="cite">This is probably a dumb question.
<br>
<br>
What is "pre-bricking" ?
<br>
<br>
<br>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Quux" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pawn2be.wild@yahoo.de"><pawn2be.wild@yahoo.de></a>
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To: "LinuxBIOS" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:linuxbios@linuxbios.org"><linuxbios@linuxbios.org></a>
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Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 6:00 PM
<br>
Subject: [LinuxBIOS] yo, pre-bricking an A8N-E !
<br>
<br>
<br>
wow, it only took me only 3 hrs to pre-brick the Asus A8N-E I got at
<br>
ebay for ¤22.
<br>
<br>
I would have been faster, but the ROM / IMAGE SIZE of the current
<br>
revision ist stated as 7F00 instead of 20000hex as in the M57SLI
<br>
target. Once I fixed that I could flash the current revision - and the
<br>
POST card gives me a steady 80.
<br>
<br>
I keep you guys informed but the ASUS A8N target is not even flashable
<br>
currently (Also the wiki - downloadable ROM image is bad size (20000hex
<br>
required)).
<br>
I plan to put together a CDROM .ISO file (a remastered dream linux)
with
<br>
the LB tree and ready-to-flash working filo-ROM-image. should be a
<br>
quickie. --Q
<br>
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