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<rRBlc.383924$2oI1.93757@twister01.bloor.is.net.cable.rogers.com>, "Just
Asking" <redrider@rogers.com> wrote:
> Looking for method to remove the bios chip from this board and replacing it
> with a new one, how do they come out?
If it is a PLCC, use one of these. I seldom had access to one of
these, and uses a thing like a dental pick to ease a PLCC out of
a socket. The main idea, is not to bend the pins on the device
or the pins in the socket. The following tool grips the device
via diagonal corners, allowing the device to be pulled straight
out. If you rock the device, to pull it out, or to insert it,
there is a small chance you could distort the pins. (That used
to happen to me occasionally, and a pair of pliers can be used
to bend the pins back if you mess them up.)
http://www.radioshack.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=CTLG&product%5Fid=276-2101
To push it in, you don't use the tool. Just push down on all four
sides, and try to push it in on all sides equally.
Make note of the position of the alignment "dot" on the device
you are about to remove, so you can insert the new one in the
correct position. If you insert it wrong, the reversed power
supply pins on the EEPROM can get so hot, that two of the pins
will glow. (That happened to someone in this group, who bought
some motherboards that had been refurbished by an idiot. The idiot
put new EEPROMS in the sockets, only inserted them the wrong
way before shipping them.)
HTH,
Paul
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