Hello, While trying to get a standard Pentium Socket 7 motherboard to boot, I tried swapping the standard AWARD flash ROM chips from another machine to see if that would work (I performed the hot-plug flash transplant successfully one time before, to bring back a different board from the dead). Unfortunately this time I paid no attention to the chip direction and the chip got very hot and the sticker became blurry, likely from heat underneath, just like your "hotflash" page indicates. My questions are: - is this flash chip completely ruined? - would most likely any pentium "PCI/PNP 586" flash chip work as a substitute? Is there a way to tell if it's 5V or 12V flash? What happens if you mix the 2 up? - How do you tell the correct orientation? - is the motherboard ruined completely? - is there a better way than pulling the flash ROM chips with those extremely flimsy little metal pins, and plugging them back in? This is an operation that seems to be reproducable once, maybe twice, with any given ROM chip before you permanently bust the pins. Finally, where can I get a POST card? I saw one on a vendor's website the other day but I cannot recall where. Oh and if you know of any site with PC BIOS information relevant to my questions, I would be extremely interested in the reference; thanks!!! In case you are interested in my "purposes"; this is entirely slanted towards the interests of a PC repair technician who often mucks around with old/spare parts and tries to restore them to working order. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Josh Straub ô¿ô [EMAIL PROTECTED]
