Re: Gigabyte P35 Boards
there's no metal back plate..
nothing that could cause a short somewhere...
and i even checked the voltage on the mosfets for CPU and the RAM..
CPU gets 1,31V and the RAM 1,81V (after starting up and beeping with a black screen) .. well.. voltages are ok...
that's why i think the previous owner flashed the wrong BIOS.
usually i would hot-flash the BIOS chip in another mainboard (i've done that a dozen times without any problems)... but unfortunately... it has a special 8pin chip instead of the usual 32pin PLCC chips.. (and to make it even more complicated... it's soldered onto the board (no socket)) *argh*

SOP 8pin 8Mbit (1MByte)
MX 25L8005M2C
and as i don't have another board with this type of BIOS chips on it i'm kinda stuck here..
i could either continue trying to get it running by myself or i could sell it on ebay...
original packaging, manual, CD, and all the other stuff that came with it (eSATA adapter stuff and SATA/IDE/Floppy cables, .... everything still sealed and never used) is there..
hope i'll get at least 3/5 of the money i paid for it if i sell it :/
there's no metal back plate..
nothing that could cause a short somewhere...
and i even checked the voltage on the mosfets for CPU and the RAM..
CPU gets 1,31V and the RAM 1,81V (after starting up and beeping with a black screen) .. well.. voltages are ok...
that's why i think the previous owner flashed the wrong BIOS.
usually i would hot-flash the BIOS chip in another mainboard (i've done that a dozen times without any problems)... but unfortunately... it has a special 8pin chip instead of the usual 32pin PLCC chips.. (and to make it even more complicated... it's soldered onto the board (no socket)) *argh*


SOP 8pin 8Mbit (1MByte)
MX 25L8005M2C
and as i don't have another board with this type of BIOS chips on it i'm kinda stuck here..
i could either continue trying to get it running by myself or i could sell it on ebay...
original packaging, manual, CD, and all the other stuff that came with it (eSATA adapter stuff and SATA/IDE/Floppy cables, .... everything still sealed and never used) is there..
hope i'll get at least 3/5 of the money i paid for it if i sell it :/
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