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First post, by ramiro77

Posted on 2016-02-22, 17:03

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Hello guys! Short story: I bought a ridiculously amount of hardware for pennies this last weekend. I found an Asus P4S800D motherboard that looks unused but without bios chip. I only found that this chip is a 4 mbit eeprom but nothing about part code. Do any of you know what bios chip goes in there? I have several 2 mbit eeprom chips and I'm tempted about flashing one and give it a shot, but I have to see first if they are pin to pin compatible.

Thank you guys. Have a nice day!

Reply 1 of 6, by bellarmine

Posted on 2016-02-24, 08:11

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Hi Ramiro,

A few minutes with Google Image Search turned up these. Check them out, especially the first one. If the first link doesn't work for some (unknown) reason, I've attached it as well.

https://store.donanimhaber.com/d8/81/74/d8817 … afbadc94565.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/z0r0LIk.jpg
http://pcbonto.hu/portal/static/upload_apro/2 … 61088_orig0.jpg
http://pcbonto.hu/portal/static/upload_apro/2 … 61088_orig1.jpg
http://drpc.lublin.pl/uploads/original/asus-p … s800d_x-_1_.JPG
http://www.biosflash.com/e/Bios-Chips-ASUS-P4S800D-3932.htm

Also, in the manual they say "4Mb rom", so I guess that means 4megabit(megabyte??). I've attached the manual for your reference.

Hope this helps, let me know when you get 'er running!

Bellarmine

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Reply 2 of 6, by tayyare

Posted on 2016-02-24, 12:30

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You might check

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trk … D+bios&_sacat=0

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Reply 3 of 6, by keropi

Posted on 2016-02-24, 14:15

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the bios chips is a typical 49LF040 one - it's a 4mbit device (meaning 512kbytes of data)

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Reply 4 of 6, by ramiro77

Posted on 2016-02-24, 15:54

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bellarmine: I don't know where you got that picture but thank you dude!!! I can see clearly that the bios is a 49LF040.
You are always awesome guys! 😀

Now I have to find a replacement. Buying from Ebay isn't an option since I'm in Argentina and custom taxes and shipping would be very expensive. I think any pin-to-pin compatible 4 mbit eeprom flashed on an external programmer will be ok.

Reply 5 of 6, by tayyare

Posted on 2016-02-24, 16:10

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ramiro77 wrote:
bellarmine: I don't know where you got that picture but thank you dude!!! I can see clearly that the bios is a 49LF040.
You are always awesome guys! 😀

Now I have to find a replacement. Buying from Ebay isn't an option since I'm in Argentina and custom taxes and shipping would be very expensive. I think any pin-to-pin compatible 4 mbit eeprom flashed on an external programmer will be ok.

Check this:

10 USD shipping included, latest BIOS copied on it. Do your customs care about small bubble envelopes? Ours are notorious about collecting taxes too, but at least they don't care about very small pieces with 10-15 dollar declared value.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/BIOS-CHIP-ASUS-P4P800 … 6kAAMXQN8BSNrEP

Reply 6 of 6, by ramiro77

Posted on 2016-02-25, 03:20

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Mmm I don't really know. We have a new president right now and many rules changed. I have to ask what would happen in this particular case.

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