Are you sure that the BIOS chip you are being sent is a blank one?  I would
think that if it is a replacement BIOS chip, it will come with whatever the
default BIOS flash is that is being used by Shuttle at this time.
Obviously, this is something that you would want to get confirmed, and there
must be some reason for you thinking that the one being sent to you may have
nothing on it.

I've heard of people hot swapping BIOS chips between identical motherboards
in order to recover from a bad flash on one of them, but it isn't something
that I've ever tried.

John Sproule

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 11:33 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] BIOS programming


>I was trying to flash the BIOS on my new Shuttle computer when the
> programming software reported a verification error. This was definitely
> not
> a good sign!
> To solve my problem, I had to call Shuttle tech support and have them send
> me a new BIOS chip.
> Now for my question to the list. Since I do not have a flash ram
> programmer
> for this BIOS chip, is it possible to pull the chip while power is on to
> the
> computer, insert another chip and then program it? What I am really asking
> is whether it will damage the flash RAM chip by removing and inserting it
> with the power turned on. Obviously, I can't turn the power off before
> placing a blank chip in since the computer will not boot then.

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