Hi Carl-Daniel, Sorry about not sending my message in the correct way.
I have now peeled off the sticker. This is what is on the flash chip: iTE IT8718F-S 2M24MA L I hope this means something to you. Best regarsd, Julio On 20 May 2010 11:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi Julio, > > it seems [email protected] was left out of the conversation by > accident. I've added it back, please use the "reply all" button in the > future. > > On 20.05.2010 12:12, Julio Barrios wrote: > > Hi Carl-Daniel, Joseph and Michael, > > > > Many thanks for your replies. I very much appreciate it. I'm not sure if > a > > flash chip is the same as the BIOS chip (I'm a complete newbie here and > am > > just learning a bit, and destroying computers along the way it seems > LOL!). > > Anyway, my BIOS is a Phoenix D686 and my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530. > > > > "Phoenix D686" is probably written on a sticker. Can you peel off the > sticker and tell us what's written on the BIOS flash chip? > > > > By the look of things, I guess that I will need to buy a new motherboard. > If > > that is the case, then I will need to buy one that is compatible with > linux > > because I'm not prepared to give up Ubuntu and go back to Windows. > > > > If you need any more information so that you can help me, please let me > > know. > > > > Some people/companies in the UK offer services to reflash mainboards. > That might be what you want, but I'm not sure if the shipping cost is > worth it. > Besides that, some vendors might offer top hat flash solutions for your > board, but I'm not 100% sure about this. > > > > Again, guys, thanks a lot. > > > > Julio > > > > Good luck! > > Regards, > Carl-Daniel > > > > On 20 May 2010 09:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > >> Hi Julio, > >> > >> please note that the method in the link can destroy your mainboard if > >> your flash chip uses a different interface (very likely). See below for > >> details. > >> > >> On 20.05.2010 09:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > >> > >>> On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>> IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I > >>>>> think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only > >>>>> connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip > >>>>> > >> on > >> > >>>>> top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower > >>>>> one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still > has > >>>>> the link? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>> http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html > >>>> > >>>> > >>> The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat > >>> flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board > >>> and thus has a lower risk. > >>> > >>> > >> The best way to figure this out is to find out which flash chip you have > >> and tell us. Then we can try to find out which pins need to be bent and > >> disconnected. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Carl-Daniel > >> > >> -- > >> http://www.hailfinger.org/ > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > -- > http://www.hailfinger.org/ > >
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