Where can I buy a Gigabyte BIOS chip replacment already programmed ?

[victor43]

Hello I need to buy several of the dual BIOS chips used for the following board: GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3_v1.3 I've already contacted Gigabyte and they say they do not supply the chip. We have the facilities where the chips can be physically replaced but the need the dual chips that already programmed.

 

[Shaun o]

Basically this is what you do when you have no means of programming a bios chip yourself, but can get hold of the bios chip.

And the brand and model number of a non programmed bios chip for a set motherboard.

If you have an existing motherboard with the same model number, and the bios chip is programmed.
You buy a riser socket.

Remove the bios chip from the motherboards cradle that the programmed bios chip sits in.
The riser socket has a switch on it and two cradles for bios chips.
You put the good programmed bios chip into one socket.
Then seat it, or connect it to the bios socket of the motherboard.

Place the blank bios chip in the other provided socket, next to the programmed one.

Boot the pc. Then flick the switch on the bios riser card over to the blank un programmed bios chip.

And do a bios upgrade procedure of the bios chip via the downloaded firmware.
with the help of the motherboard the blank bios is then programmed.

Then you remove it and place it in the bios socket of the intended board of the same brand and model number such as the GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3_v1.3

 

[victor43]

Hello and thanks for the response Shaun. I'm not sure if your aware but this board has the BIOS (dual) soldered onto the PCB. It's not like the old days when the chip itself could be easily unseated by way of tweezers or a tiny flat head screw driver.