ms-5187 mboard dead

Hot-swapping and Boot-Block flash & Boot block flash and floppy support
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rp16
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hi all!
need your help.
my mboard is ms-5187 and trying to flash its bios on ms-5169 but unsuccessful.tried uniflash and hotswap,detected my bios but fails and returns the message 'verifying error'.my corrupted chip is w29c020c-90b.
are there other ways i can bring this board to life or its hopeless.please help me. :cry:
thanks!
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Ritchie
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If the BIOS appears to attempt a boot from the floppy drive you can carefully setup a floppy disk with the correct BIOS image that will boot and run through the flash operation by itself.
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NickS
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rp16 wrote:hi all!
need your help.
my mboard is ms-5187 and trying to flash its bios on ms-5169 but unsuccessful.tried uniflash and hotswap,detected my bios but fails and returns the message 'verifying error'.my corrupted chip is w29c020c-90b.
are there other ways i can bring this board to life or its hopeless.please help me. :cry:
thanks!
It is possible that your chip is faulty. Can you find a replacement 2Mbit BIOS chip ?
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