Need recommendations for a good chip-programmer please
Well, my account here still works. I still remember those days … replacing the caps to save a motherboard. Back before our current disposable-mentality really took-hold. I’ve looked around at the recent threads … it’s really cool how yall help each other. I’ve still been upgrading and fixing desktops and laptops. Replace a laptop-MB, install a NVMe-SSD, new thermal compound apply, pull a coin-battery to clear-cmos (that kind of thing).
Now that we apparently have to try to build laptops like phones (solder almost everything to the motherboard) looks like the idea of repairing them is coming back. I look at BGA and dream of the days of hole-thru soldering or at least early SMT (soldering I can do well). How this forum has adapted with the times is excellent.
My old company used to have an ISA-card based eprom-programmer back in the 90’s and I did all the “rom burning” for the office-staff … but I’ve never had my own. Even dabbling in Arduino, drones, and virtual-pinball cabinets over the years it never really came up. But it looks like a good chip-programmer is becoming a necessity for these newer laptops that like to brick-themselves at the drop of a hat. I look at it like another tool in my kit (like a good DMM). My Aoyue 2702 is not the best, but it gets me by.
I see yall have a Sticky here, so that’s cool. Should help guys like me get caught-up with the current procedures.
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...tools?t=103526
If possible, I’m looking for one from a real established company (with still supported software). I’ve heard good things about XGecu programmers. Something like a T56 I think … something I can grow-into and should last me a while. I like the idea of being able to expand it with the proper adapters or clips now and later.
The current problem child is a Dell XPS-15 9520 laptop. It has worked fine for 3 years on current BIOS. Went to flash the BIOS Firmware to next in Dell’s list (getting ready for CA-2023). Action in UEFI-Environment looked fine until it rebooted. Now I just get a BIOS screen and F2, F12, and CTRL-ESC are non-responsive (it's basically Bricked). With the Intel-i7 / 32gb / Nvidia RTX-3050 and high-res LCD-panel … it seems like a travesty to strip it for parts.
An Internet acquaintance says I need a RT809F or RT809H because XGecu T48/T56 don’t do laptop BIOS roms like this (he said the 9520 uses WSON-8/DFN-8) . But the guy on PartsPeople YT video is clearly using a black XGecu unit and running the XGecu software … on BIOS chips in newer Dells and Alienwares. Likely just a misunderstanding on my part as I don’t have a full understanding of the parts yet (or the current scene).
So, if yall could help me make a more informed buying decision, I sure would appreciate it.
Now that we apparently have to try to build laptops like phones (solder almost everything to the motherboard) looks like the idea of repairing them is coming back. I look at BGA and dream of the days of hole-thru soldering or at least early SMT (soldering I can do well). How this forum has adapted with the times is excellent.
My old company used to have an ISA-card based eprom-programmer back in the 90’s and I did all the “rom burning” for the office-staff … but I’ve never had my own. Even dabbling in Arduino, drones, and virtual-pinball cabinets over the years it never really came up. But it looks like a good chip-programmer is becoming a necessity for these newer laptops that like to brick-themselves at the drop of a hat. I look at it like another tool in my kit (like a good DMM). My Aoyue 2702 is not the best, but it gets me by.
I see yall have a Sticky here, so that’s cool. Should help guys like me get caught-up with the current procedures.
https://www.badcaps.net/forum/troubl...tools?t=103526
If possible, I’m looking for one from a real established company (with still supported software). I’ve heard good things about XGecu programmers. Something like a T56 I think … something I can grow-into and should last me a while. I like the idea of being able to expand it with the proper adapters or clips now and later.
The current problem child is a Dell XPS-15 9520 laptop. It has worked fine for 3 years on current BIOS. Went to flash the BIOS Firmware to next in Dell’s list (getting ready for CA-2023). Action in UEFI-Environment looked fine until it rebooted. Now I just get a BIOS screen and F2, F12, and CTRL-ESC are non-responsive (it's basically Bricked). With the Intel-i7 / 32gb / Nvidia RTX-3050 and high-res LCD-panel … it seems like a travesty to strip it for parts.
An Internet acquaintance says I need a RT809F or RT809H because XGecu T48/T56 don’t do laptop BIOS roms like this (he said the 9520 uses WSON-8/DFN-8) . But the guy on PartsPeople YT video is clearly using a black XGecu unit and running the XGecu software … on BIOS chips in newer Dells and Alienwares. Likely just a misunderstanding on my part as I don’t have a full understanding of the parts yet (or the current scene).
So, if yall could help me make a more informed buying decision, I sure would appreciate it.
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