Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-18 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
cmp.org" Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 at 7:09 AM To: "cctalk@classiccmp.org" Subject: Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote: On Apr 16, 2018, at 6:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 04/16/2018 06:11 PM, CuriousMarc

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-17 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018, Curious Marc via cctalk wrote: On Apr 16, 2018, at 6:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: On 04/16/2018 06:11 PM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: And lifting the sticker reveals the BIOS chip is just a W29C020P-12, a regular 256k x 8 Flash memory, 5V chip. Duh. Mystery

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
> On Apr 16, 2018, at 6:31 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > >> On 04/16/2018 06:11 PM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: >> And lifting the sticker reveals the BIOS chip is just a W29C020P-12, a >> regular 256k x 8 Flash memory, 5V chip. Duh. Mystery solved. Of course way >> newer and with ma

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 04/16/2018 06:11 PM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: > And lifting the sticker reveals the BIOS chip is just a W29C020P-12, a > regular 256k x 8 Flash memory, 5V chip. Duh. Mystery solved. Of course way > newer and with many more address lines than my DataIO 29B can read and > program. Time has co

RE: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread CuriousMarc via cctalk
other recommendation? Marc -Original Message- From: Curious Marc [mailto:curiousma...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2018 12:52 PM To: Glen Slick; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip Glen, I think I wasn't thinking straight late

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread Curious Marc via cctalk
Glen, I think I wasn't thinking straight late last night when I finally found the chip was bad... I usually don't work on stuff that "new", so I was unfamiliar with the PLCC 32 format and have nothing to program it. I bet the reference of what chip it is hides just under the label! Assuming thi

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Glen Slick wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:08 AM, CuriousMarc via cctalk > wrote: >> After battling for days with a Dolch 65 that developed the two-tone >> beep-of-death on boot, I finally found that it's just my BIOS ROM that has >> gone bad. The BIOS happen

RE: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread Rik Bos via cctalk
-Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: cctalk Namens Glen Slick via cctalk Verzonden: maandag 16 april 2018 19:10 Aan: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Onderwerp: Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:08 AM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: > Af

Re: Help on a 1998 Award BIOS chip

2018-04-16 Thread Glen Slick via cctalk
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:08 AM, CuriousMarc via cctalk wrote: > After battling for days with a Dolch 65 that developed the two-tone > beep-of-death on boot, I finally found that it's just my BIOS ROM that has > gone bad. The BIOS happens to be an Award BIOS, says "Award 1998 PCI/PNP > 686" on th