want to know about duel bios chips on laptop motherboard? i found in hp nc2000 laptop, one winbond square and one winbond mosfet shape chip. i am confused.
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Last edited by masud; 03-31-2013, 09:11 PM. -
Re: want to know about duel bios chips
If it is an I3,I5 or I7 motherboard, is normal to see two bios chips. One is the bios for the embedded controller, and another one for main bios.
Both two can fail due to corrupted data.
Main bios used to be, at least 4 times bigger than EC bios.
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how it can be identified the main and the embided controller bios chip?Comment
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bios for ec is near EC. main bios is near south. if ec bios fails you cant switch on machine.Comment
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