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Flash bios from network card

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First post, by candle_86

Posted on 2016-07-22, 15:44

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Now I have an older 3com and a realtek pci network card with a 32pin DIP socket, my bios chip is a 32pin PLCC. Is it possible to get a DIP32 to PLCC32 adapter on ebay and then flash my bios this way? I don't really want to drop the 50+ bucks on a flash programmer I'd seldom use. ITs for an Abit NF7-S2G that I screwed up the flashing on making it impossible to post.

Reply 1 of 1, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2016-07-22, 19:02

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Depends on the type and capacity of the flash chip, the supported capacity on the network card and the supported cards / chips in the flashing software.

I've had success with a 29F001, RTL8139B and the flashrom tool: https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware

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