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sulbert · Master Flasher Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 204

Came across this thing today when I was reading a review of an ECS Photon series board. This is how it looks like - two PLCC sockets and a small PCB between them:

Does anyone have hands-on experience (or whatever they call it...) with that device?[/url]

Rainbow · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 10:52 am Post subject:

Something like IOSS BIOS Savior Question

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sulbert · Master Flasher Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 204

Not quite. It's meant for recovering boards with soldered BIOS chips (patented by ECS). AFAIK BIOS savior is only usable on boards with socketed flash chips...
I guess this thing only works with some ECS boards - some additional hardware (probaly cheaper than a socket...) on a board is needed for this thing to function IMHO.

Rainbow · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:38 pm Post subject:

Looks interesting... Can anyone examine that?
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KachiWachi · Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 1:47 pm Post subject:

It almost looks like 2 sockets back-to-back and slipped over the bad chip...but that wouldn't work unless you isolated the bad chip somehow so the good chip could take over...
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Ritchie · BIOS Guru Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 761

I am wondering if it could be some kind of heatsink or cooling system, except that heat would probably not be released from between two chips in that way.

sulbert · Master Flasher Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 204

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2003/ecs/pf1/pf1gallery2.htm