Hi,
A while back I was toying with the idea of setting up a business on the side to do the kind of bios reprogramming you so often see nowadays. I managed to get all the information I needed apart from a couple of points - incidentally which stopped me from proceeding.
1. Is it really necessary to stock a very varied range of 100% compatible ROMs (within a certain pin number and package, etc) to cater for the various ROMs found on mobos's (we're talking a couple of hundred here). How do the other companies get away with it - do they really stock nearly all makes and models?
2. Where can you source small numbers of these ROMs (1000 isn't that practical!) Some are fairly easily available - but many of them are extremely tricky to find - and virtually never in small numbers.
If anyone could help I'd be most grateful.
Thanks,
Andy
Equivalent BIOS ROMs
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The most compatible brands with 128 and 256KByte capacity are Winbond/SST and maybe Atmel (29C020/29EE020/29C010/29EE010)
Should be the same with 512KByte chips but there are standard flashroms and Firmwarehubs for Intel chipset based mainboard existing with this capacity
Should be the same with 512KByte chips but there are standard flashroms and Firmwarehubs for Intel chipset based mainboard existing with this capacity