First post, by meljor
Hi,
I rescued a MS5169 ver:2.1 AL9 super socket 7 board with Ali chipset from a scrapper. But it was wounded already so it has these problems i need to fix:
On the photo you can see that it is missing a alu heatsink which had a component attached (2 pins are still there, the rest is torn of for the alu). I'm not good with electronics but i can fix this if i know what needs to be placed there.
I think it is some kind of voltage regulator? Any way, if anybody has the same revision of this board then please can you tell me what's missing? I assume there's also a cap missing next to the other one.
Last but not least: It's missing the bios chip (they always rip them off). I do not have the same board laying around otherwise a hotflash would be no problem. Can it be done on a DIFFERENT board and just force the flash??
I see all kinds of cheap eeprom flash devices from china but which one do i need to be able to flash 486/p1/p2/p3 bios chips? Which chips do i need to order for these boards?
Thank you!
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