.rom FROM IMAGE

[stupidman]

Hi, everyone.
Excuse me for my bad English. I am from Russia.
I have casually come across your site looking for decision of a problem arisen to me.
May be vou will help me.
The chip of flash memory E28F002BC-T60 on my MB TC430HX Tucson AA Revision 661449-503 died.
I found equivalent for him, downloaded a new insertion 10004DH_.exe from intel download.
But the matter is that burning in ROM programmer requires only one .rom file, whereas in archive there is a set of files with extensions .bio, bi1, bi2, bi3, rec, rcv, rec, re1, re2, re3.

I did all 48 possible concatenations of files bio, bi1, bi2, bi3 with cutting off headers and made-to-measure to 2 Mbit by FF's, but none of these concatenations opened correctly by AMIBCP v.7.51.03, 7.60.04, 2.43.2 for Win utility ( generated error -" BIOS module header cannot be foud " ), although AMI's copyright string ( AMIBIOS (C)1985-1991 ) is in 1004dh0_.rcv - really.

Whether there is a possibility to assemble the .rom file for ROM burner from this set .
Which utility can open Intel BIOS correctly? Neither AMIBCP nor AMIDECO can do it.

TIA

[edwin]

Solder chip in place and perform a recovery flash.

[stupidman]

Solder chip in place and perform a recovery flash.

Hm....It is necessary to have at least boot block in the chip for recovery.
Very curiously read post of this kind from "System/network engineer".
Thank's for concern anyway...

[sunbirds]

I have checked the bios, it 's neither ami bios nor phoenix bios, so you cant use ami tools open it .

[stupidman]

I have checked the bios, it 's neither ami bios nor phoenix bios, so you cant use ami tools open it .

AMI's copyright notice ( AMIBIOS (C)1985-1991 ) is in 1004dh0_.rcv - really. Intel took AMI BIOS as basic and very strong modified one, i guess. Nevertheless. May be exist utility kinde of AMIBCP and AMIDECO for proper hack Intel bios?

[edwin]

That's what worked for someone that had completely FUBARd his bios. But you are telling me no matter how much abused the chip still should have a bootblock somewhere?

I'll see if I can find my TC430HX board (it's here somewhere I'm sure) and get a .rom file with uniflash from it. The iflash utility won't let you...

[stupidman]

That's what worked for someone that had completely FUBARd his bios....

Yeah...That's nice worked if BB is alive. My chip is physical fault ( i wrote about in first post ) and very warm up . When i desoldered him, date line DQ4, DQ5 ( pins 32,33 ) were shorted to ground. Under TSOP dice on PCB exist place for 1 Mbit 32PLCC dice. It is posible use for 2 Mbit dice with insignificant alteration. I certainly lose the possibility to make recovery from floppy because of nonconformity chip ID, but this no longer is important I mount 32PLCC chip carrier on board, have rom programmer, new dice, i need .rom file.

I'll see if I can find my TC430HX board (it's here somewhere I'm sure) and get a .rom file with uniflash from it. The iflash utility won't let you...

I will be very grateful. You can save FW using BIOSUP.exe ( with /S key ) utility from 10004dh0.exe archive http://drivers.vartek.com/Motherboard/I ... 004dh0.exe
TIA

[Nick Podkopaev]

Hello, Stupidman!

Have you solved your problem with Tucson board?


Regards,
Nick