New bios chip for $15.00

[aperry]

Hello,

I flashed a FIC VA-503+ v1.2a board with the wrong bios...shut down entirely.

Is the bios chip soldered or removable?

Can you sell a replacement?

Thanks,

Alex Perry

 

[popatim]

on images of the board that I found online I do not see that the bios chip is in a socket so it is not easily replaced.

 

[vigilante212]

just remove the battery to reset the bios

 

[christop]

just remove the battery to reset the bios

That doesn't work when you corrupt the bios with a bad flash. If your board was super cheap it wont have a socket-ed bios chip.

 

[mavroxur]

That board, does in fact, have a socketed BIOS chip. It's along the front edge of the board, in front of the *cough cough* ISA slots. I'm curious though, why are you flashing the BIOS on a Socket 7 motherboard?

 

[beenthere]

You might be able to restore the original BIOS if you saved it as is often the case before installing a new BIOS.