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Serial and USB Console on Mac OSX

11/09/2013 by Myles Gray Leave a Comment

Obviously nowadays when admining we mostly have laptops – laptops don’t tend to come with serial I/O ports anymore, so you buy a Serial -> USB adapter, say this one or any one with a legit (there are fakes) FDTI FT232RL chipset. Download and install the relevant drivers but where do we go from here? Specifically […]

Filed Under: Hardware, Software Tagged With: cisco, console, osx, rs232, serial

Fixing/Flashing a broken motherboard w/ SPIPGM2 and Serial

01/02/2012 by Myles Gray 24 Comments

You will need:

  • Dead Motherboard
  • Spare PSU
  • Paperclip
  • Laptop/Desktop with LPT/Serial
  • An old unused cable with a 2×5 header on one end (usually come free with motherboards)
  • Universal Boot CD
  • SPIPGM2
  • CWSDPMI7
  • Cable Wiring Guide
  • A BIOS ROM for your motherboard (go to your manufacturers website and download the latest)
  • Basic DOS knowledge

Filed Under: Hardware Tagged With: bios, serial, spi

Myles Gray

Hi! I'm Myles, and I'm a Dev Advocate at VMware. Focused primarily on content generation, product enablement and feedback from customers and field to engineering. Read More…

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