need a Ben Eater type of video about bios chips
@cafkafk it's a ROM
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@chjara since you're the current expert, how dangerous is it to take my BIOS chip out, dump the rom, save that rom for later and try and run a intel me removal script on it?
Like, I can just reflash it with my dump right if I brick anything... right?
Like, I can just reflash it with my dump right if I brick anything... right?
@cafkafk uhh if it's an EEPROM and you can reflash the original if something breaks, i think it should be fine
@chjara I'm not really sure what an EEPROM is tbh 
I'm gonna go read the numbery bits on it is probably can find a spec sheet for it ig?
I'm gonna go read the numbery bits on it is probably can find a spec sheet for it ig?
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It's very likely an SPI EEPROM. I can't imagine a situation when you'd do something irreversible by rewriting its concepts, except:
- damaging the thing (e.g. by connecting power backwards or providing wrong supply voltage),
- flashing code that does something that damages the motherboard (I would expect that BIOS-code-that-damages-mobo is a thing, but it's very hard to accidentally mangle a BIOS into that form).
