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Man without having another nForce2 board handy...... believe I would contact Epox and purchase a new BIOS chip. They are not that expensive. Just means a little down time. Luck. Pops.
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i got bigger problems now, i think i managed to flash the chip using winflash and doing it when in winxp. upon removing the bios chip for about the 5th time i broke some of the brown surrounding off the bios socket thus loosening and removing one of the pins!!!! have you ever tried soldiering a bios chip leg to your motherboard while not damaging any other the other legs, it aint easy. anywasy it booted up with an 0d error with isnt even listed in the motherboard manual ![]() Soul99
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you ********************! good now i got that out my system. well its still just beeping at me and dispite my exelent soldier job its not posting. if i go to the trouble to unsoldier it out put it back in this board you thing theres any chance of geting a proogy to flash it properly? Soul99
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Hmmm so it was prying the bios chip out that borked it was it? Firstly sounds like you might not have been using the correct version of awdflash (you need 8.22a for this mobo)... I have used the winflash utility everytime without incident, now you have physically damaged the hardware ot is going to be difficult to diagnose and fix with any degree of accuracy... You may have to put this one down to experience and get yourself a new mobo (and a bios removal tool for the future) Best way to remove a surface mount type bios without the correct tool is not to pry out with a screwdriver, but rather to get a paperclip, bend the last 1mm into an L and then hook this under one corner and pull... Prying out just stresses the outer bios socket...
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Would that not be said "correct tool"?
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Which board did you break ? NF2 or 8k3a+ ? 0d indicates a bad bios or damaged mainboard (you may have both) Your only hope to recover the board will be to flash the chip (providing it isnmt broken) then get it back into the board. Try not to get the chip too hot if you solder it im not sure how extreme temperature will affect the CMOS, probably not very well.
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Soul99, Once the socket is cracked it doesn't provide enough tension to the chip contacts. If the socket isn't too torn up, here's a trick that works sometimes... use a zip tie around the socket to hold it together. If it still doesn't work, you could always do a non-warranty repair with Epox.
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*ouch* i'm havin that biccy back now ![]()
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