[Herefordshire] Christmas bash

[Julian Robbins]

Hi Andrew

Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> 
> A friend of mine restored his by replacing flash chips at the point at
> when the flash was going to occur with the bad flash chips, and it
> seemed to get it back up.

Unfortunately, it's a soldered in chip, so cant replace it. I tried the 
'boot block' method, but it didnt work for me at the time. Noel has sent 
some really good detailed instructions, so I might give it a go over 
Christmas again.

Julian

PS, Box set his PC on fire, by crossing over some pins on a connector on 
the motherboard , as far as I remember !! :-)


> 
> Andrew.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
> [mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian
> Robbins
> Sent: 18 December 2004 18:31
> To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Christmas bash
> 
> Sorry, must have missed your email earlier this week.
> 
> Box was recalling an incident when he actually managed to set his
> computer on fire !!. Made me feel not so bad about wrecking the BIOS
> inadvertently on my new motherboard ..... ;-)
> 
> Julian
> 
> Andrew Hodgson wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>So spill the beans - what did he do then? 
>>
>>I missed that, as being the other end of the table!
>>
>>Andrew.
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
>>[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Julian 
>>Robbins
>>Sent: 11 December 2004 00:04
>>To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
>>Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Christmas bash
>>
>>On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 22:42:40 -0000
>>"Andrew Hodgson" <andrew at hodgsonfamily.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>My Christmas project is to see what I can do with a couple of pieces 
>>>of hardware (namely a cheap NAS product I purchased off Ebay that runs
>>
>>
>>>on Linux called the Buffalo Linkstation, and has lousy security so it 
>>>is easy to get in as root, and my brand new 64-bit AMD machine (I want
>>
>>
>>>to see if I can run a specific 64bit distro on it)).
>>
>>
>>Nice to meet you .
>>
>>i really enjoyed the bash tonight - especially hearing Box's 
>>recollection of when he set his pc on fire !!!!!
>>
>>You could always try the 64 bit version of ubuntu. i was tempted, when
> 
> 
>>i went motherboard shopping the other day ... ;-)
>>
>>
>>Julian
>>
>>
>>>Anyway thanks all,
>>>Andrew.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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