allredy have an eeprom programer and dont know it? (crazy idea maybe :)

[ae2598 at wayne.edu]

Hot-swapping chips on a running motherboard, in and of itself, sounds a
bit reckless to me.  However if you actually got it to work, who am I to
argue?

The problem with programming EEPROMs for ECM use would be that, first, I
wouldn't think modern motherboards would be able to get by with 27256's
anymore (I know earlier ones did though) and second, how would you change
the cached BIOS code to a usable BIN file without crashing the board?

Maybe I'm just not understanding how the process works.. Is the BIOS
re-written at a hardware level?  That is, would the CPU not have to be
able to execute the BIOS routines in order for the chip-writing to take
place? 

 On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Allan Langford wrote:

> Anyone ever thought of puting a ZIF socket on your PC main board for use as
> a programer? i have no idea about the compatability between the GM ECM's and
> EEPROMS i know that you can remove the pc's bios once its runing as it
> caches the chip anyway and you can pull the chip and program another in that
> socket (used this method to fix mainboards struck by that virus a few years
> ago) anyone willing to try this and read it back on a normal programer see
> if it works?
> 
> Regards,
>     Allan Langford
> 
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