Bios location for Asus laptop N61JV motherboard

Gasek

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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 bricked this laptop too, by flashing it from HDD FAT32 partition (system reserved 350mb). I have flashed it several times before from USB FAT32 stick without any problems. Apparently this is a common problem with ASUS laptops... I've seen warnings about NTFS, but it seems you should ALWAYS flash from USB. Fixed it by dumping broken BIOS image and replacing its second half with 224 image downloaded from ASUS. To do this you will need an arduino, raspberry pi, bus pirate, or whatever you have, with flashrom software.
I have bricked this laptop too, by flashing it from HDD FAT32 partition (system reserved 350mb). I have flashed it several times before from USB FAT32 stick without any problems. Apparently this is a common problem with ASUS laptops... I've seen warnings about NTFS, but it seems you should ALWAYS flash from USB. Fixed it by dumping broken BIOS image and replacing its second half with 224 image downloaded from ASUS. To do this you will need an arduino, raspberry pi, bus pirate, or whatever you have, with flashrom software.
 
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