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the title says it all

i have a good asus motherboard with a dead asus AWARD bios chip , and a working non-asus AMI motherboard/chip... i don't really know how to hotflash it, funny thing with asus...

once i boot up with the standard AMI chip here, i pull it out, still good... once i put in the AWARD chip in, the computer freezes.

someone please help

(getting a ISA vid card and ISA FDD controller tomorrow - hopefully - if not, then this weekend)

edit: ok, i didn't read it well... i can't HOTFLASH it, but i can still flash it in this board right?

oh yeah, my asus motherboard doesn't have any ISA slots but this one that im on ( gigabyte ) has 2

and which flashing utility should i use?

Looks as though the chip is actually dead, e.g. maybe someone plugged it in reversed at some point, or applied 12V to a 5V chip. If it freezes the other machine then I don't see how you're going to be able to flash it.

What are the chip part numbers under the labels ?

Check the chip pinout if it is compatible with the pinout of the board you're using for hotflashing.
BTW.: Some boards don't like hot-flashing - I've seen a board hanging after removing the chip - I think that it was some 486 PC Chips board.

Filip04 wrote:which flashing utility should i use?

can someone answer this? i have a general idea how to do the rest

Apparently Gigabyte post a version of the AMI flasher which doesn't worry what it's flashing
Also there's Uniflash

I had often success with Uniflash or with Amiflash Aminf329 or 332 flashing other types of Bios with Award or AMI Bios .
But maybe you dead chip is really dead now - I tried to flash a 4MBit(512KByte) Intel Firmware from I810 Mainboard in an Asus P2B - Computer hang up once chip inserted and it was dead .

i have no idea how to read these numbers... i can't find any of them anywhere

but here it goes (from under the sticker)

PMC Flash
MBN4H
0229
Pm49LP002T-33JC

(from the sticker)
ANVM4
1003
GMD...(missing the rest as the sticker ripped)

once i get the ISA FDD card off my friend, i'll try to flash it with UNIFLASH...