[ILUG] Re: [OT] Bios

[Christian J van den Bosch]

You should need to get a new chip, just whip out the existing one and
take it along to an electronics lab to get it programmed correctly. But
the easiest option, which in my experience most reputable boards (not
just Intel) support when the bios is trashed, is to boot off a floppy -
if you stick in a dos boot floppy when you turn it on is there any
activity suggesting that it might be booting?

Failing that, if you decide you do need a new bios chip, you could
always try Farnell (01-8309277) CPC (01-4073092) Radionics (01-4153100)
or Maplin (01-8782388), but you will need to get the same type as you
already have.

If you don't know what it looks like, it will almost certainly be a
socketed chip, i.e. not soldered directly onto the board; it may be a
DIP (about half an inch wide, two inches long with pins at 0.1"
intervals down the two long sides) or a PLCC (rectangular thing roughly
0.5" square with a 45 degree chunk missing off one corner for
orientation) with the pins at roughly 0.05" pitch (but they'll be half
hidden if it's socketed, as the whole body of the chip goes into the
socket, with a slot at two opposite corners of the socket to aid
removal). For a flash part it will probably have a number on it
beginning with 29C

> From: Mel <mel at csn.ul.ie>
> To: ILUG <ilug at linux.ie>
> 
> Anyone know where I could get a new bios chip altogether for a
> motherboard? I don't see anything on Gigabytes website and the only other
> place I could find is www.unicore.com which has no base in England or
> Ireland.
>                 Mel
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