Need HELP w/ 1st ever hotswap- Procomp BVK1M socket A

[jgs000]

Got a dead Mobo from a pal who flashed the wrong BIOS onto this Procomp BVK1M. no boot, no POST on power-up.
the BIOS chip is: Award PCI/PNP 686 #247532101
the ROM chip is: PMC FLASH B4U28 0028 Pm29F002T-12PC
I have the correct .BIN Bios file and Awdflash.exe

I propose to do a hot-swap, but have a few questions:

1)Can I hotswap this using a S7 mobo, VIA MVP4 chipset?
2)Can I use award flash utility to do this, or MUST I use that Uniflash Program?

3) what advice can anyone give that is not on the FAQ, or rainbow's hotswap page?

BTW- this is the same board from previous post:
Post subject: 6A6LMB09C-00

Thanks for any assistance

[NickS]

Make sure the S7 motherboard is using a 29F020? or 29F010, you don't want to accidentally flash a 5v chip with 12V. See if a 2Mbit ROM is an option for the motherboard you are planning to flash in to give yourself a bit more confidence...

[jgs000]

Okay; The board I want to hot flash with is an MVP3 chipset- eeprom on this board is SST 29EE010. I found a site that said this is a 5V ROM chip.

So the EEPROM I want to flash is PMC 29F002T-12PC. does the 12PC mean 12V???

Can I go ahead and try this?

[jgs000]

I got brave and tried to do the deed...

the S7 board is a Soltek SL-54U5, via MVP3 chipset. I fired it up with the ROM chip loose, and BIOS cacheable, then switched ROMs. tried to do the flash using AWDF773... It acted like it wanted to go, then locked up with the floppy drive light on???

1 thing I did notice is the BIOS for the Soltek board is only 128KB, while the BIOS I am trying to flash on the new chip is 256KB.

Am I defeated this soon? Any help?

[Rainbow]

It's possible that the MVP3 board does not support 256KB chips. Try UniFlash.

[NickS]

So the EEPROM I want to flash is PMC 29F002T-12PC. does the 12PC mean 12V???

No, the "29" means 5V. "28" would be 12V.

I use an MVP3 based board - PC-Chips M577 - but I haven't tried to flash a 256Kbyte (2 Mbit) chip yet. Try Uniflash