BIOS chip location

[devilsrenaissance]

Hello everyone, I am 100% sure my mobo is bricked. I am therefore thinking of replacing the BIOS chip with a new one. The thing is that it is not properly labeled. Can anyone help me find the chip?
Mobo: Asus Strix X370-f gaming.

Ps. A red circle around the BIOS chip would greatly help.

 

[RememberThe5th]

That should be it, as i see its soldered.
If you dont have quite good skill, DO NOT REPLACE IT!

 

[lumineZ]

Unless you are VERY skilled with an solder iron.... DO...NOT...ATTEMPT....


EDIT: You still have warrenty on that motherboard. Return it and get a new one.

 

[devilsrenaissance]

I tried to RMA it with Asus but since I'm not in the US, they don't wanna take it and there's also no official Asus repair center in my country.
I'm really out of options :/
Will try to give a feedback when I decide to actually do it 😉

 

[RememberThe5th]

If you know someone with good skill, take it to them, or ask them, just buy an bios.

There is another option, do you still have original CD of motherboard?
Put it into dvd and start the pc and leave for 1-2 min and see if it actually boots up, i never tried this simce the cd has bios of mothrrboard and dos to make boot pc without/corruptes bios.

 

[devilsrenaissance]

So I just bought the BIOS chip on ebay.
I did ask the seller if they knew where the bios chip is located.. Seems like it is just above the first pci-e slot.
Link: https://ibb.co/jM7Bf8

Will update again when I replace the chip.

 

[RememberThe5th]

Yeah probably i pointed put wrong. Sorry for that.

 

[devilsrenaissance]

I have tried like everything to get pass the 'bios is updating screen' to no avail.
I tried using the usb flashed fat32 with bios, the dvd drive with the cd, breadboard the entire system and every time it was the same bios is updating screen.
Im practically sure it's the Asus Live update that caused this because I'd never initiate bios update from windows.
What's even weirder is that during post I can't enter the bios menu by pressing DEL/F2 key when this screen appears.
At first I thought it was my RAM modules that were causing this.. Corsair didn't even ask questions and shipped me another module after they received the returned RAM.
A bit disappointed with Asus for not providing this kind of support.


It's okay. I myself was pretty confused locating the bios chip and not labeling didn't help at all. Thanks for the help though 😉

 

[smorizio]

look online on bios recovery for the bios chipset. (ami or award). most of them will tell you to clear the cmos and on a usb stick put a bios file names a sertain way and then hititng at power up a set of keys. with bios recovery if the bios is still bootable it take 30 min or more with the usb stick in the pc. the bios has to time out and then try and recover.