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First post, by gusG

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Hello

I have the ecs P6BX-A+ with 1mbit (bios 128kb) i purchased winbond W27C020 2mbit (256kb).
I programmed the bios chip with the TL866-G3
the pc boot but show unknown flash type and not do ESCD reset

Thanks!

Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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The ESCD update in a bios actually writes to a small part of the bios eeprom, if the eeprom is of unknown type or bad it cannot write/update ESCD proper.
My guess is that your 2Mb rom chip is unknown to the ESCD flash part inside the bios code. Based on the ECS archive the board used Award Flash 6.6 which supported only these chips (internal code):
http://web.archive.org/web/20010801150153/htt … nload/flash.htm
"FLASH MEMORY WRITER V6.6 $..(C)Award Software 1998 All Rights Reserved$
SST 28EE010 & 28EE011 /5V$.!AMD 29F010 /5V $.!INTEL 28F001BX-T /12V $.!28F010 /12V $.!WINBOND 29EE011 /5V $.!MXIC 28F1000AP /12V $.!MXIC 28F1000P /12V $.!ATMEL 29C010A /5V $.!ATMEL 29C010A /3V $.!ATMEL 49F001T /5V $.!CSI CAT28F001P /12V $.!AMD 29F002T /5V $.!SST 29EE020 /5V $.!ATMEL 29C020 /5V $.!INTEL/TI TMS28F020 /12V$.!INTEL 28F002BX-T /12V $.!MXIC 28F2000PPC /12V $.!WINBOND 29C020 /5V $.!CSI CAT28F002T /12V $.!MXIC 28F2000TPC /12V $.!MXIC 28F002TTC /12V $.!IMT IM29F002T /5V $.!BRIGHT BM29FS020 /5V $.!PMC PM29F002C /5V $.!SGS-THOMSON M29F002T /5V$.!MOSEL V29C51002T /5V $.!ATMEL 49F002T /5V $.!ATMEL 29LV020 /3V $.!SST 29LE020 /3V $.!SST 39SF020 /5V $.!Unknown Flash"
If you use a chip not listed then there will be issues....
NOTE: the bios internal ESCD flasher may have a much more limited eeprom support list, I did not extract one...

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Reply 2 of 2, by gusG

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OK
I replaced the bios chip with W29C020C it worked better but i cannot change cl3 to cl2 on ram settings. I will look for another motherboard with 2mbit bios chip to found out the actual chip

Thanks