So to be safe I was hoping to help David by finding out what the Flash ROM chip looks like and where it is on the card. We already have the chip numbers of the two different chips from Jeff W. Thanks for the reply. Will S
The flash chip is in the upper left hand corner of the board about an inch or so back from the rear plate.
The chip is an eight pin SOIC. It's a tiny little black thing about 1/8" X 1/4" or thereabouts, with four pins down each long side. It is surrounded by the unused solder pads for a 32 pin PLCC Flash. The unused pads are in a rectangle, 7 X 9 X 7 X 9.
Let me know if you need any more info to find it.
Those 32 unused pads imply that the card could use a more conventional parallel flash chip, if only we knew how. The parallel chips are easier to find, often available on Ebay for about $.20 - $.50 each (in lots of a few hundred) easier to program (mainly because more of us already have the necessary adapters), but a tad more difficult to solder, because they have 32 'J' lead pins instead of eight gull-wing pins.
Jeff Walther
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