I'm hoping someone here knows how to program bios chips. I corrupted mine somehow after trying to load up a newer bios file. Computer only boots to the "boot block" part which asks for a floppy disk (and my motherboard is a refurb that has something wrong with the floppy drive connection).

It's an epox 8k5a3+ athlon board, chip is mounted in a socket (not a dip style, its the one with pins on all 4 sides...forget what it's called).

Hoping that one among the sea of nerds at UMR would help me out here

Thanks

find someone with the same mainboard as you...and learn the art of hot-swapping

i can prolly help you out on that, it uses awdflash right? i've got bios savior. Bring it over and we'll see. i'll be up till 1 tonight and i'll be out all day till 9ish tomorrow.

(sorry for hijacking)

brooklyn: would you be able to re-flash an old Asus a7v bios chip? Either I get this one fixed, or I go out and buy a whole new/old board that supports sdram D:

I'm not positive and have emailed some people to find out but you chip needs to look like this

Not sure that is has to be this exact chip but has to fit into the slot this fits in.

damn D: mine's got the older looking one (2 long rows of pins).

Oh well, thanks anyways.