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Post by Bones on Oct 30, 2017 22:27:53 GMT -5
OK - My Soyo board uses a 256K BIOS chip, the last time I tried to run it I discovered it's BIOS chip for some reason had gone bad and tried flashing a BIOS file to a 512K chip but it didn't work. Strange that the chip would go bad since the very last time power was even applied to it the board acted fine and did everything it was supposed to do.
I simply took it down and stored it like all the rest until this last time I had tried to run it.
Will the size of the BIOS chip itself make any difference? Because if so I'll need to find a 256K BIOS chip for it, I have several spares but all are 512K chips.
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Post by Mr.Scott on Oct 31, 2017 17:29:43 GMT -5
OK - My Soyo board uses a 256K BIOS chip, the last time I tried to run it I discovered it's BIOS chip for some reason had gone bad and tried flashing a BIOS file to a 512K chip but it didn't work. Strange that the chip would go bad since the very last time power was even applied to it the board acted fine and did everything it was supposed to do. I simply took it down and stored it like all the rest until this last time I had tried to run it. Will the size of the BIOS chip itself make any difference? Because if so I'll need to find a 256K BIOS chip for it, I have several spares but all are 512K chips. Yes, the size absolutely matters. I have a cross reference chart here somewhere. Tells you what number chips are interchangeable. I'll post that here when I find it. FWIW, I've had chips fail over time. I do not understand how, but yes, a couple failures actually.
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Post by Bones on Oct 31, 2017 20:51:07 GMT -5
That's probrably the issue I'm dealing with then. Can flash a chip with the BIOS for it but the board acts like it's dead. I'll dig around and see if I can't find one or bite the bullet and get one from BIOS depot, maybe two.
I'll checkout the chart though before doing anything.
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