What would you consider cheap? The most common programmer is the TL866II. Pricing of those is several tens of euros/dollars. You could do a hotflash procedure so "live flash" the chip in another board. I have a Socket 7 board with a socketed bios and the same format (32 pin). It is an Award bios …

evasive wrote on 2021-04-04, 09:20: D1 bootblock error, if the bios chip is removable, flash a known good bios with a programmer in there. Yes, BIOS chip is removable. It's a 32 pin AMIBIOS 586 BIOS. Chip says AMIC A290021T-70. Can you recommend a cheap and compatible programmer?

CesarDRK wrote on 2021-03-23, 00:49: Are you using an AT or ATX power supply? If ur using an ATX psu, i would try with an AT one (and vice-versa). Tried with both. Same error.

Can you take a picture of your POST card in the board with the error ? D0 you have a speaker hooked up and does it give any beeps ? As for the code D0 and D1, with later version AMI bios those are boot block error codes not main bios codes. D0 is early chipset and cpu initialization and D1 is later …

Hello, I recently got a PC Chips M598LMR motherboard with an AMD K6-2 processor. Unfortunately I'm having trouble making it post. Speaker doesn't give any sound. Wha I got was the codes D1 and D0 from a PCI/ISA diagnostic card. I have already tried: Multiple RAM (32, 64 and 128MB PC100) A known …

Sounds like CMOS battery to me. I fixed a seemingly dead Latitude C640 by yanking the CMOS battery. I had to disassemble the whole laptop to access the CMOS battery. It was under the motherboard. It's a soldered 3V Panasonic V1220. Tester says 2.77V. Is it ok or does it need to be replaced? Also …

It's an original Dell PA-6 charger, model ADP-70EB. It says 20V 3.5A.

Hi! I got an old Dell Inspiron 2500 a while ago but without a charger. I recently got one to test the computer but it wont start. Kinda. I pressed the power button and fans, HDD and CD drive started spinning along with power and HDD LED turning on. After a couple of seconds it shut down completely. …

Please be aware that "monochrome" on VGA cards does *not* mean that they can work as MDA/HGC replacement. It only means that they are configured to drive a monochrome VGA monitor, or emulate monochrome card using a VGA monitor. So you cannot use a VGA card to drive a MDA monitor! Get a MDA or …

Hi! I recently got 2 computers. One of them is a 286 SunMoonStar (never heard of the brand) with a dead PSU and the other one is a ComputerLand Micro/C (386, 4mb RAM, 77MB HDD) that came without a graphics card. I took the SunMoonStar graphics to the ComputerLand PC but I'm having trouble …