debug bios or roms chips, what are they made of?

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just curious, I am changing a chip in my home system and I used a dremmel to get the old one off and I skinned the side of the chip so some powder was flyin, just curious what their made out of. Just one of my hypocondriac questions :emb:
 
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NeoFight said:
I am changing a chip in my home system and I used a dremmel to get the old one off
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:lol: :oh_no: :eye:
 
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They are made of magic smoke...

Onetime i was fiddling with my motherboard while running. It started to smoke then never worked again. I guess I somehow let out the magic smoke.
 
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normal proms are made of plastic (the shell anyways).

eproms are usually made of ceramic with a glass window.
 
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i was just reading actually and I believe its just silicon, was just curious. Not like I snorted it, just some was getting in the air.
 
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NeoFight said:
just curious, I am changing a chip in my home system and I used a dremmel to get the old one off and I skinned the side of the chip so some powder was flyin, just curious what their made out of. Just one of my hypocondriac questions :emb:
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Why did you take a dremmel to it? Why not take a flat screwdriver and simply pry it off using essentially no force at all, and it leaves the old chip still usable...
 
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doing that with a non-socketed AES chip is gonna result in a very, very ugly MB :P
 
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