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The chip is an AMD, with the following part number:

AM 29F002NBT -120JC

It's square, in a brown socket.

I will explore the options for short circuiting the chip as a last resort, in case I make another mistake. Meanwhile, I read the bios recovery info for the Award flash at the first link. Just to be clear, do I have to short circuit or otherwise clear CMOS before I attempt the bios recovery procedure...

If not we need to hope it reacts to a checksum invalidation/recovery procedure. We actually have a patched update for the Micron variety on our big disk page that is slightly newer than your, a version 2.8 How to go about using the BIOS recovery procedure? I don't have any compatible board for hotf...

The BIOS chip is socketed, not soldered. It has a gold Presto label, with another (white) label pasted on top. The Presto label reads: © 1998 176199826 The white label pasted on top (over AWARD) reads: 2.61 I can pull the BIOS chip but don't have access to any other board with the original BIOS. Tha...

Thank you for the reply. I should have thought about OEM modifications by Micron before flashing!

I have a Micron DR737 board (aka BCM IN400ZX) and updated to the most recent BIOS found on at the page for this board. There were no issues with the motherboard, except that it did not see large hard drives. http://www.bcmcom.com/tech/IN440ZX/IN440ZX.htm# Windows XP was running fine, and identified ...