On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Glen Slick <glen.sl...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:08 AM, CuriousMarc via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >> After battling for days with a Dolch 65 that developed the two-tone >> beep-of-death on boot, I finally found that it's just my BIOS ROM that has >> gone bad. The BIOS happens to be an Award BIOS, says "Award 1998 PCI/PNP >> 686" on the chip. It's a square chip with pins on the side. >> >> Photo here: >> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OtZ1AU0Hac8RlzTgbgCY4z_qcMlGWXu1 >> >> So I thought I might just ask. Anyone has a dead Dolch 65 motherboard from >> which I could steal a BIOS chip. The board is actually an Advantech CI6BM-B1 >> industrial single board computer. >> >> Or alternately, can someone identify what kind of ROM or EEPROM that likely >> is, and provide advice on how to read the data from a good chip (I have >> another good chip in another Dolch, that's how I found out what my problem >> was), and program a similar chip. >> >> Marc > > I also have a PAC 65. I'll have to open it up and take a look. Wish > there weren't so many screws involved. Whatever that 32-pin PLCC part > is I should be able to read its contents with my BP Microsystems > BP-1610 device programmer. I could program a new one if I had some of > the same part on hand.
I just checked and my memory was not correct. I have a PAC 63 and a PAC 64, but I'm not sure what the model is of the one I thought was a PAC 65. That one doesn't have a model sticker on it. I didn't open it up to take a look. From the BIOS POST screen it has an i440FX chipset PII 266MHz CPU board with an AMI BIOS with a copyright of 1996. So that's not the same as your copyright 1998 Award BIOS PAC 65. The other ones I have are newer P3 FlexPAC boxes.