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Screw it... the low traffic of this board made me lose all hope anyway. I ended up just shorting out the stupid chip when I shorted VCC to Reset on the chip... or something like that. Stupid multimeter probe slipped. Now all I get is "FF". Oh well. In the trash the whole thing goes. Stupid CPU. Stup...

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaait. You get 7 beeps too? We need to network . I get 7 beeps too and have no idea where to go from there. I have a POST scanner and pinouts of my ROM chip too. 7 beeps on an AMI bootblock recovery means "No flash EPROM detected", with no more useful information than that. How do yo...

For a simple problem like this, maybe I can offer my help. You haven't said you've tried actually using the bootblock recovery method, so I'm assuming you haven't. You need a floppy drive. You know, back in the old days, that wouldn't be a prerequisite... that would be a given. ;) Once you've dug th...

Hm. Formatting a title is hard. Okay. Here's my dumb. I have a PC Chips M825LU v7.2 board with a really screwed-up CPU. I bought the CPU on eBay for an unreasonably cheap price... the first chip I received was DOA, so I returned it and exchanged it for another, that POSTed, and that's all I cared ab...