Recently I've bricked my laptop Asus N61JV. I love this laptop and I am trying to fix it by replacing the BIOS chip. I can desolder/solder however I am having trouble finding the bios chip on my laptop motherboard. I have ordered a bios chip that is supposed to be the correct bios chip replacement for my motherboard but nowhere on the board that chip is present (the chip I received from BIOS Depot on Ebay). I have found two flash chips on my board. I don't know which one is the bios: one is the SST25VF032B-50-4C-S2AF 32MBit SPI Serial Flash and the other one is the MX12G 25L512MC (IF i had to guess I would say this one is the BIOS ship).
I have ordered a replacement bios from bios depot on EBAY(I assume they know what they are doing) and received a WINBOND W25Q32FV 1609.
Which chip in my motherboard is the BIOS chip? Is the Winbond chip a valid replacement for the BIOS chip in my motherboard?
Any help is appreciated!
http://www.datasheetspdf.com/PDF/25L512MC/742931/1
http://html.alldatasheet.com/html-pdf/191700/SST/SST25VF032B-50-4C-S2AF/69/1/SST25VF032B-50-4C-S2AF.html
My motherboard picture with winbond chip on the left (not soldered) and SST25 chip original soldered to motherboard
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPUs9rmxiVfkyGZ2sjSao_43KUFUQy74if5A1Km
MX12G chip original chip on motherboard
https://goo.gl/photos/cRq7Jao3wnVRBWLF9
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I have ordered a replacement bios from bios depot on EBAY(I assume they know what they are doing) and received a WINBOND W25Q32FV 1609.
Which chip in my motherboard is the BIOS chip? Is the Winbond chip a valid replacement for the BIOS chip in my motherboard?
Any help is appreciated!
http://www.datasheetspdf.com/PDF/25L512MC/742931/1
http://html.alldatasheet.com/html-pdf/191700/SST/SST25VF032B-50-4C-S2AF/69/1/SST25VF032B-50-4C-S2AF.html
My motherboard picture with winbond chip on the left (not soldered) and SST25 chip original soldered to motherboard
https://photos.google.com/photo/AF1QipPUs9rmxiVfkyGZ2sjSao_43KUFUQy74if5A1Km
MX12G chip original chip on motherboard
https://goo.gl/photos/cRq7Jao3wnVRBWLF9
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