Flashing openbox S9 chip direct?

[afcwomble]

Hi,
I have my brothers S9 which wont accept a flash via cable, tried different timings etc.. & have spent ages trying so in the end I found that the chip to flash is the 8 pin MX25L3205d so have removed it but the bugger wont erase/flash. Has anybody done one this way before? Cheers

 

[slugworth]

when I got my s10 I bought blank flash chips because of the lack of jtag port,but never had to program or use the chips.I was always able to recover via rs232 and the loader v2.0.0c.
I suppose there is an spi programmer out there that will do it.

 

[afcwomble]

Thanks for reply Slugworth, it was your thread on another forum that identified the chip. Im trying using my willem which does support these chips but just gets buffer error & doesnt seem to have facility to erase either? Might have a bash with labtool & see if that does it.

 

[slugworth]

there is a freebie spi programmer that works off the parallel pc port,but I never tried it.

 

[afcwomble]

Where is that?

 

[slugworth]

SPIFlash.org - What we do in life echoes in eternity.
for the download you may have to search for spiflash.zip

 

[afcwomble]

Thanks for that, will look it up later on & let you know how I get on.