You solder the wrong SPI BIOS chip on the wrong board...... then press go..
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As long as its the same chip, probably nothing. it shouldn't go up in smoke unless you put it in backward or something....but if the POST config on the eprom doesn't match the motherboard, it simply just won't POST.<--- Badcaps.net Founder
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Damn, it is a bit fiddly soldering em on as well
939 DualCore AMD Opteron, 1800 MHz (9 x 200)
Abit AN8 / Fatal1ty AN8 SLI Series
3072 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series (1024 MB
Lian LI Aluminium mesh caseComment
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SPI BIOS chips are similar in size to SOIC-8. I'd rather solder a SOIC-8 than any other chip. Light years between leads so alignment is easy and solder bridges are rare. They are almost as easy as inserting and removing a DIP from a socket.Comment
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that's why my flasher board has a ZIF like socket for them
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If they are SPI they probably support in-circuit programming.
My MSI 790GX-G65 even provides an ICSP header but you may be able to get away with just tacking or clipping some wires to the appropriate pins...
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Hello everyone.
I have come here with a rather specific question. I was given a Dell Latitude 7420 laptop with a busted screen, and wanted to see if I could refurbish it into my daily driver. I wanted to experiment and see if a 2-in-1 display would work as the chassis of the laptop and 2-in-1 7420 looked identical. I threw in the display and my hypothesis was correct, however, I was greeted with a locked BIOS and since I didn't know the password, I figured I'd try to unlock it somehow. I bought one of those POGO pin probe things for my CH341A programmer so I could read and make... -
Hi everyone,
I hope someone can help me.
I have an Asus ROG Strix Scar 18 (G814JZ) laptop with a Winbond 25Q16JWNIG chip on the motherboard.
Unfortunately, I flashed the wrong file (BIOS/EC/other region – I'm honestly not sure anymore), and now the laptop is completely dead: no display, no fan spin, no reaction at all.
I have a CH341A programmer and I'm able to read and write to the chip. However, I'm not sure which software is best (AsProgrammer, NeoProgrammer, etc.) or if there's anything specific I should watch out for.
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Long story short:
- dad converted Asus Chromebox CN62 into Windows compatible, with mrchromebox BIOS, years and years ago
- gave the computer to his son a couple years later
- son now decided to revert it to Chrome OS, to sell it as original (re-writing BIOS with the backup one created by his dad)
- too lazy to remove the board from the case, thought a voltage regulator was the BIOS chip (you know... it has 8 legs)
(seems like the story was not that short)
He used alligator clips to read the chip. No luck reading it. Removed chip and placed on a SOC-8... -
Hello.
I received a 840 G1 with completely wrong system info in BIOS.
Serial Number and everything is wrong, even the Model is wrong (written as 850 G1)
How can i reset these info?
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hi,
i've being using this Cello tv, uk brand, C40rts, HK.T.RT2841P638 main board, for a year or more.
Last week i've found an update, 3rd party, that i though it was close to my board. Inserted on a usb stick the install.img, started the Firmware update, ended, rebooted and nothing. The led (red-green) keeps flashing, backlight is on but to response on remote.
I've retried with original fw, no success. Hooked the uart Cp2102, putty, tried to swuu command (to update from usb), it goes for a while the get "cpu reset" on laptop screen that brakes the process and halt....11-03-2024, 02:28 AM
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