I've read tutorials and such on how to make homebrew modchips with flashroms/eeproms (or whatever). i have a few old chips, but no boards to flash them with. I've heard that you can flash the chips with PCI cards and i do have the UniFlash program. so, here's my Question:

I have acquired an ethernet that has a spot (or slot?) that you can fit a 14 pin chip onto, with some work, i can make the 16 pin chip fit. So, would I be able to use that spot on the card to flash my chip?

thanks for any replies.
John

If you want to see a flash *of smoke*, then you can do it.

Otherwise, there is no way that will work.

NOPE. If it's a 14 pin socket then it only has 14 leads. This means that there's 2 legs that aren't gonna make contact no matter how well you make it fit.

i've already thought about the 2 extra sets of legs that dont make contact, and i've already thought about it, i can just get a small piece of wire and connect it to the points on the card. and looking at the bottom of the card, the 2 extra sets are connected to lines minus 1 that is just there. what about that?

Read my first post. Won't work, the pinouts will be different.

Just because I can plug my keyboard into the S-video port on my TV doesn't mean now I can type on my TV screen. Bad example but you get the drift.

But you could always try it and report back here, letting us know if it blows up just your homebrew chip, your ethernet card, or your whole PC...

well, i just found out today that my friend had a mobo that can do what i need. it was his (just recently) old computer! what an idiot, anyway i don't need to do this anymore. but if i do it, which i just might anyway, ill let you guys know. and i actually chuckled at the s-video and keyboard thing