First post, by brian105
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I'm trying to dump the BIOS from my Presario 5284 with an MVP3 and not finding much luck. I have absolutely no idea which BIOS this is based on:
I've tried multiple BIOS dumping methods (all software based since I have no EEPROM programmers) including basically all AMI/Award/Phoenix flashers which all fail to do anything. UniFlash can't detect some info, but successfully dumps 1 mbit of the BIOS. Unfortunately, according to Sandra 99 the BIOS is 2 mbit and somebody already verified for me that the 1mbit dump looks exactly like a 2mbit dump chopped in half.
I also tried Flashrom in DOS, which detects the VIA chipset but says there's no EEPROM detected. Now, I thought by 1999 most machines would have had EEPROMs but maybe I'm glorifying Compaq and they actually put an EPROM instead to save money because screw customers. Maybe it just isn't detecting properly? No idea.
Does anybody have another way which can be used to dump the BIOS? (software based stuff)
Presario 5284: K6-2+ 550 ACZ @ 600 2v, 256MB PC133, GeForce4 MX 440SE 64MB, MVP3, Maxtor SATA/150 PCI card, 16GB Sandisk U100 SATA SSD
2007 Desktop: Athlon 64 X2 6000+, Asus M2v-MX SE, Foxconn 7950GT 512mb, 4GB DDR2 800, Audigy 2 ZS, WinME/XP