howto flash bios using pci card

Hot-swapping and Boot-Block flash & Boot block flash and floppy support
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son_harina
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i have read in some of the messages that you can flash bios using lan card if i remember. i saw a lot of lan card that have sockets just like the bios chips (dip chips i guess) but the size is two pins shorter. are those cards that they were referring to. please help. i have a dead mobo that i have tried the hotswap but it didnt workout right.
Tomasz
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Well, maybe that was my post about flashing FlashROM with PCI car (NIC). The socket of the NIC was really 28, not 32 pins...
But, after all, You try to hot-flash with another mobo, see FAQ on that forum&search posts about hot-flashing!
Good luck!
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son_harina
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hi!

i failed to flash my bios using other motherboard maybe because of the size. my bios is 256k and my available board is only 128k. can i use my pci card instead? if ever, can you tell me how to do that? thanks!

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Well, I've hotflashed many 256KB BIOSes on boards that originally had a 128KB BIOS. That shouldn't be a problem.
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"howto flash bios using pci card?"

Thats the Trillion Dollar Question....
son_harina
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i tried flashing this bios chip (256k) on two 128k motherboards. always the problem is when i try to flash using uniflash is 'verifying error' prompts me. :?:
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