Originally posted by c117152
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Issue is that in many many motherboards I've had to save from a bad flash you can't use it, and not because it does not fit.
The 3.3 v isn't just connected to the SPI chip, but to the rest of the board too so you are also dumping power in the board and your power source might not be enough to power up the chip + whatever else might be attached there too, or there might be some other things connected to the board that is pulling up/down the write protect pin when you power the chip or the board, or whatever else you don't really feel like troubleshooting when you can whip out a hot-air desoldering station and pull the fucker away in 2 min.
On routers I play with, the clip usually works fine, probably because they are much simpler devices with much simpler boards.
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