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[Discuss] Updating firmware



> This is going to sound depressing, but the only way to know for sure is to
> pop the eeprom and program it with an external programmer.

As someone who flashes a lot of laptop firmware roms, it's really not
that bad. The soic-8 flash chips are not hard to remove with a $40 hot
air station, and you can rewrite them with flashrom on a raspberry pi,
a breadboard, some jumper wires, and a $10 clip. Takes a few hours to
do the first time, but you get the hang pretty quick.

-Ben



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