If you wrote this earlier, my reply would be different. Obviously BIOS flashing is not for fainthearted people. BTW, desoldering will be the last solution when everything else have failed. SPI programming don't require you to desoldering the BIOS chip. The guy who create the BIOS Repair Wizard already share the basic schematic on his blog. I bet any guy who have basic knowledge on electronic can re-built the board (thanks to the original creator). I'm just saying, if anybody want to use modified BIOS, he/she should know/accept the risk. If not, just use the original one. Basically just need to learn it a little bit. Don't need to have PHD to recover corrupted BIOS. BIOS recovery is not a theory anymore for me. I already tried it, use it a couple of time before.
Of if the BIOS is in the socket it might cost you a bit (ASRock cost 5 Euro) for a replacement BIOS sebus
When i mentioned ASRock i was just stating a fact, i was talking about normal forum members who would not no the risks involved if ASRock flash goes wrong first place they would look would be the bios recovery section and probably AMI bios recovery tutorial they may not know there is no normal recovery build in to these bioses. I know there are other recovery possibilities i,e, hotflashing and bios programmers, iv'e had to hot flash old ASRock core 7 bios myself
Yupz andy, it's work ok here but I thought the new version automated create the name for the recovery bios file (almost all the bios mods that I've made with the new version always give a message bout the name for recovery disk) or the bios from Asus P5 Deluxe had the same name for the recovery file eg UEFI0221.rom? Thx in advance for ur help!
It only shows the name if found at a special place. This UEFI comes from AMI. Also EFI from Sony are different.
Ok. Our discussion is sort of deviated from this thread topic, - sorry about that I do agree with everything you wrote. Might be just one correction: If we are talking about external SPI programmer - that depends on mobo design. Sometimes it’s not possible to power up just an SPI chip, because necessary schematic is missing on mobo. The whole point of “in place” SPI reprogramming was to apply power to SPI chip only. Solutions exist still, but “a little bit” more complex.
We can agree & disagree. No problem about that. Yeah, our discussion is sort of deviated from this thread topic. Yeah, this depend on the mobo design. That guy did explain about it in his blog. He managed to supply enough power to the chip.