Ahh, those were the days. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.
A few years ago I purchased an NVMe SSD, and an adapter, without thinking much of it. I try to use it, only to find out it isn't recognized. My motherboard didn't support it. I had to manually download files for it and patch in support to the motherbord's firmware. You haven't lived until you do this.
Now you can just buy a CH341 dongle and clip it onto the BIOS flash chip if you need to unbrick the motherboard. It's easy as long as the motherboard uses an SOIC or DIP flash chip.
26 Comments
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 144d
Back in the old days there was no rollback option either. Kids have it too easy now.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 144d
Way back in the day, there was no firmware update.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 143d
Back in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.
undefinedTruth@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 142d
Ahh, those were the days. Putting the UVEPROMS under the sun and waiting for them to be erased to use them again. Just kidding! I am not that old. But I used to have a professor telling us stories about that sort of thing many years ago.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 142d
Yeah I was gonna say that, It's not from my time but it's from my time enough that I still studied them in school
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
If it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don't suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 4 pts · 143d
I mean, there is still no rollback if you don't spend a lot of extra bucks for that feature
kubica@fedia.io · 41 pts · 144d
Adrenaline? PTSD from when I didn't have a second device to have a plan B.
Senseless@feddit.org · 5 pts · 144d
That's when I grab my 2009 laptop from my basement.
Cethin@lemmy.zip · 32 pts · 144d
A few years ago I purchased an NVMe SSD, and an adapter, without thinking much of it. I try to use it, only to find out it isn't recognized. My motherboard didn't support it. I had to manually download files for it and patch in support to the motherbord's firmware. You haven't lived until you do this.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 16 pts · 144d
Nothing brought me closer to god then getting into tech. Praise be to omnimessah.
01010000 01110010 01100001 01101001 01110011 01100101 00100000 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01101111 01101101 01101110 01101001 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01101000 00101110
real_squids@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 144d
Viceversa@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 144d
*omnissiah
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 143d
So it is. Been spelling it wrong in text for ages. I need to stick to binary.
cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de · 13 pts · 144d
Now you can just buy a CH341 dongle and clip it onto the BIOS flash chip if you need to unbrick the motherboard. It's easy as long as the motherboard uses an SOIC or DIP flash chip.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 143d
Yes, but first often you'll need to dump the flash ROM, since some BIOS requires signing (at least on some OEM boards and laptops).
Gork@sopuli.xyz · 12 pts · 144d
Palms are sweaty
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 17 pts · 144d
ROM Spaghetti
brbposting@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 144d
Commit on my server already
ozymandias117@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 143d
V8.40 => V8.40 🤔
Toribor@corndog.social · 30 pts · 143d
Flashing the same version of the BIOS just to feel something, anything.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 143d
Mechanical CPU doing 862 RPM.
angband@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 144d
Batteries are good
romanticremedy@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 144d
At work, I bricked MB once because BIOS update failed AND rollback feature didn't work. 🤷🏻♀
bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
neox_@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 144d
Or GNU Boot? 👀
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 143d
I updated my BIOS yesterday. Is my phone listening to me?