Could someone please help me in identifying the BIOS chip from the attached pic? This was pulled out of a PC Chips M912 v1.4 Mobo.
intel wrote on 2025-03-29, 04:29:Could someone please help me in identifying the BIOS chip from the attached pic? This was pulled out of a PC Chips M912 v1.4 Mobo.
27512, 28 pins
This seems like relabeled OTP-ROM chip just like "912.8-1", "912.10-1", etc. with different versions of BIOS for this board.
If you want to flash some newer AMI or Award BIOS (or switchable dual AMI/Award BIOS function of this mobo), you can use 27-series EEPROMs . If you intend to use only AMI BIOSes, 29-series EEPROMs will work too. See this thread for details: BIOS chip for PCChips M912 (486 Socket 3)
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Would the WB ("write back") mean it's programmed to lie that there is always 256KB cache?
jakethompson1 wrote on 2025-03-30, 02:14:Would the WB ("write back") mean it's programmed to lie that there is always 256KB cache?
I have no idea. My PCChips M912 ver. 1.4 mobo came with "912.8-1" OTP-ROM (128 kB dual AMI + Award BIOS chip), one TAG and eight cache real SRAM chips socketed out of the factory. I'm pretty sure that ".8-1" markings mean newer BIOS versions than in ".7-1" marked chips, and older than in ".10-1".
The word Idiot refers to a person with many ideas, especially stupid and harmful ideas.
This world goes south since everything's run by financiers and economists.
This isn't voice chat, yet some people overusing online communications talk and hear voices.
Thanks analog_programmer replaced it with a M27C512 and got the Award BIOS flashed on it as per your suggestion. Board shows proper amount of CACHE now.
