On 2/14/06, Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
Erm no I wouldn't go plugging modern EEPROM/Flash based Bios chips into an old Eprom programmer, or you may be needing that BIOSsaviour more quickly than you think :-)
Shame, really; I miss having to wait half an hour to test a minor code change while I wait for the EPROM to erase. Of-course you could always try to find a code mod with a suitable bit pattern that you could overwrite the EPROM without wiping it first.
When I last worked with EPROMs (late 90s) the UV box always contained a few extra blanks, so there'd always be some ready. They couldn't be damaged by too much UV, could they?
Waiting for the code to compile, and then download into the proms, that was long enough! My favourite error message was "There can be only one master".
Tim.