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Sounds to me like your BIOS does not have the Dothan microcodes. If that's the case, the only solution is to find a BIOS with the microcodes, or add them manually to your existing BIOS.

I did try the -unlock switch with UniFlash, but it made no difference, the flash chip needed 12v to disable the protection.

Thanks for all your help guys! I just tried it. I ran a wire from and old molex fan connector and carefully wrapped it around pin 30 after I pulled out the flash chip. Then I isolated the pin from the socket, reinserted it, but just let it sit on the socket. Had a few problems booting the system, bu...

This is the original flash chip that came with the motherboard, it is not a replacement.

The Bios does not have a protection option that is available.

UniFlash and Award flasher fail for the last blocks. Award flasher shows 2 red blocks at the end of flash and UniFlash shows 2 X's.

Does anyone know what that special pin is? The motherboard I'm using now only has jumpers to change the Flashrom programming voltage and does not have any undocumented jumper settings. Putting 12v on any pin is not a problem for me, but I need to know which one, otherwise the flash chip will go up i...

Hi guys, Need some advice here. I have a SanLi SP-P2BXA motherboard that I would like to upgrade the BIOS in (with modified BIOS to support more CPUs and up to 128GB hard drives, right now it cannot support >32GB). The flash chip is an Intel 28F001BX/BN-T/12V according to UniFlash. When I use Awdfla...