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On installing and starting a Belkin NIC, the system crashes right away. On installing an Adaptec or SIIG USB2 card, the system will report various errors and then crash and some other screwy stuff On installing a USB Wireless network adapter, everything works fine EXCEPT when I open either IE6 or N...

Is VIA Service Pack installed?

Do you know this tool?

Phoenixdeco

Never tried it myself, just accidentally found it...

According to the data sheet the board has a Intel 82802AB Firmware Hub. Hopefully it isn't soldered like on most of the Intel boards...

Used apple_rom's patcher to fix the 2B BIOS. Everything works fine now. Thank you, apple_rom

Standard Winbond W49F002U chip.

And then bad news concerning disconnect the power pin-technology. Tried to fix a Gigabyte GA-7VA which had a GA-7VAXP BIOS image flashed inside the BIOS chip (and as a result of that, the super I/O isn't working) - didn't work Last (successful) attempts were made on an old Intel socket5 MB.

Lucky Star 6VABX2 v3.0

Thank you, Rainbow

So special flash utility (which is able to put these GPO pins to the right state) is needed for those boards?

From uniflash.txt: fixed flashing on PC Chips M715 board (i440LX) with Award BootBlock BIOS (GPO used for write protection) found a way to unprotect Flash ROM on Abit BX133-RAID (GPO used), might work on other Abit i440BX based boards too My (stupid) question is: What does GPO mean? Thank you for yo...

Google didn't help
BIOS v. 2D crashes while detecting hard disks. Hope to get the board working with v. 2C
If someone has it, please e-mail it to me (e-mail address is in the profile).

TIA
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So disassembling would be the only way to solve the problem?

Is the System Monitor a separate module in a BIOS like the EPA logo and SCSI BIOS and stuff like that? I recently upgraded the BIOS of my Octek Rhino KT133-ASP to 2K236 (which is actually meant for KT133A-ASP; of course I needed Uniflash for that operation - thnx Rainbow :)). Everything works fine (...

Yes, it really worked. By disconnecting only the power pin I was able to flash the BIOS without completely desoldering it with my c't-flasher and a self-made special PLCC adapter.

Just curious... Are there any motherboards with standard JEDEC pinout (i.e. not LPC or FWH) 3V flash BIOS chips?

TIA,
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