BuckyWootmaster wrote on 2026-05-28, 15:46:

I'm trying to recover an Arcom SBC-GX1-M0-F16 controller from an industrial sheet metal machine. The BIOS chip (Macronix MX29F00 […]
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I'm trying to recover an Arcom SBC-GX1-M0-F16 controller from an industrial sheet metal machine. The BIOS chip (Macronix MX29F002NT) is confirmed erased via a XGecu T48 programmer. The SBC-GX1 runs Windows CE 3.

Does anyone have any info on how to find a BIOS image for it? I've searched the retroweb and they have a listing for the board but no BIOS. I just need to get the board to boot up enough to dump the on-board flash data.

I'm looking into purchasing donor boards to pull the BIOS from if it's not in a database somewhere.

I appreciate any help or info.

Try this, just backed up the one from my SBC-GX1-M64-F16. I've had it in this fancy devkit box for a few years now.

Seeing that your one's BIOS flash chip has lost its data and that I didn't have the BIOS archived but everything else in the devkit box was, the BIOS is backed up now.
Mine uses a Macronix MX29F002TQC-70 chip and the label on top says Award D586 BIOS PHOENIX 1998

Hope that helps you get the onboard flash memory backed up 😀

Dude thank you so much! My only worry is if somehow since it's a slightly different variant of the board it might wipe the on-board flash memory. That's like a 1 in a million chance so, if I can't get this thing running soon I'll definitely try this BIOS.

It's awesome that you were able to get that so quick!

BuckyWootmaster wrote on 2026-05-28, 23:50:

Dude thank you so much! My only worry is if somehow since it's a slightly different variant of the board it might wipe the on-board flash memory. That's like a 1 in a million chance so, if I can't get this thing running soon I'll definitely try this BIOS.

It's awesome that you were able to get that so quick!

It shouldn't, that's just the RAM configuration that's different between the two and the flash config on both our boards matches up 😀
Though I've packed it away again now, from what I can tell the memory configuration is just a user replaceable SODIMM.

Glad I can help 😀 I didn't realise the BIOS was both not backed up and not available online at all.