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Firmware / swapping flash chips, ordering spares
« on: September 06, 2020, 03:43:52 am »I looked at the wiki pages Updating Firmware and Debricking the BMC
The latter suggests "Remove the BMC SPI flash chip and reflash it with a flash programmer"
Rather than reflashing the existing chip, it may be safer to keep one additional flash chip on site. Any new images can be flashed to the spare flash chip, it is swapped into the socket and if it doesn't work, the old chip is swapped back in.
Can anybody clarify the exact type of chip to order? Are both flash chips identical or different part numbers?
Has anybody seen any useful video that shows the correct way to remove the chip?
I have a CH341A flash programmer, what type of cable or adapter is needed to insert the flash chip, or does it fit directly into one of these programmers?