First post, by gaffa2002
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Hi again,
It seems that my Epox EP-7KXA motherboard has a bad bios chip, for no aparent reason, I started getting this error message:
BIOS ROM checksum error
Detecting floppy drive A media...
INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER
I can't POST or enter setup, after some work I was able to boot from a floppy drive and attempted to use many different versions of AWDFLASH in order to load the bios image again but without success. Also tried UNIBIOS and when I forced to flash the bios image I had, there were a lot of errors while attempting to flash so that's why I suspect the chip is bad.
Now I want to replace the BIOS chip, but I simply cannot find one with the exact same model to buy (its an EON EN29F002NT-70P). Question is, do I really need to buy the exact chip or can I use a different one as long as it is DIP32 and has 2Mbit (or even larger)? If yes, what should I search for when purchasing a replacement chip?
Thanks in advance!
LO-RES, HI-FUN
EP-7KXA Motherboard
Athlon Thunderbird 750mhz
256Mb PC100 RAM
Geforce 4 MX440 64MB AGP (128 bit)
Sound Blaster AWE 64 CT4500 (ISA)
32GB HDD