To identify it if your reader can't autodetect it, you will need to remove the sticker. There is software that can read and save it in situ, but I have never done that, so will let someone else advise on that.

This looks to be the keyboard BIOS/controller. If I'm right, its contents cannot be read with simple means (including most of the cheap USB programmers).

debs3759 wrote on 2020-08-21, 23:42:

To identify it if your reader can't autodetect it, you will need to remove the sticker. There is software that can read and save it in situ, but I have never done that, so will let someone else advise on that.

Nothing under the sticker.

quicknick wrote on 2020-08-22, 00:52:

This looks to be the keyboard BIOS/controller. If I'm right, its contents cannot be read with simple means (including most of the cheap USB programmers).

How would you replace it? I want to make sure that I have future security in case of a malfunction.

short answer: you take one from another motherboard.
This is why i typically throw NOTHING away.

TimWolf wrote on 2020-08-22, 03:50:

quicknick wrote on 2020-08-22, 00:52:

This looks to be the keyboard BIOS/controller. If I'm right, its contents cannot be read with simple means (including most of the cheap USB programmers).

How would you replace it? I want to make sure that I have future security in case of a malfunction.

luckybob wrote on 2020-08-22, 04:44:

short answer: you take one from another motherboard.
This is why i typically throw NOTHING away.

Agree ! It is a KB controller. It is a 8042 controller variant. Best way to replace it is get another KB controller chip. It generally has control logic, small scratch ram and 1k to 2k of pre-programmed ROM plus some peripheral interface logic. There is no way to directly read and save the rom part and would do no good since you cannot flash another KB controller with same rom contents. Any KB controller from same era motherboard should work just fine.

Thank you all very much.