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From: "Dans_PIC_Stuff" <dans_pic_stuff@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Programming a SST39SF020 90-4C-PH BIOS Chip
> YESSSSSSS!!!  Hot-swapping the BIOS chips DID the trick!  It worked well.
> Thank you guys for that very helpful trick.  :-)
>
>   -Dan


Just as an aside, I had a similar problem with a Tyan motherboard, I tried
to flash it and it just kept hanging.

The bios chips have an area that allows dos booting, and is never over
written, it also contains a built in routine for flashing the chip. The
totally stuffed MB was restored by re running the flash utility from dos
(although it was limping badly) and to remove one of the flags -f IIRC and
all was good, I ended up with a repaired chip and a MB that reported the cpu
correctly ;o)

Regards,

Kat.

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