On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 06:12, Robos wrote: > Hi all! > Today I made a round in my hometown to find a EEPROM Flash chip to > substitute the original chip (to keep that one save). The problem is: > I don't know much about what chip to get. > But even worse: the shop keepers (electronics shops that is) didn't > know it either! > The original chip on the mobo is a Winbond W49F002U-12B. One of the > shop keepers told me that they had problems with substituting > Winbond chips since the mobo would try to write something to the chip > during bootup and if you don't have the right chip this would fail > and so the thing would boot only once...
You can use any 256kB flash your programmer support. And it is the first time I heard that the mobo will write the flash chip "behind the scene". > So my question is: what chip do you use instead of the original > Winbond chip? The original is 2Mbit (256kB). Is it necessary to get > such a large one or is 512kBit (64kB) sufficient? > I want to program the chip in this device from > www.loet.de/flasher.html which is (at least I think so) equivalent to > be programmed in the mobo (meaning the method of programming). You can use the MB as flash programmer, check out freebios/util/flash_and_burn for supported flash part. Ollie
