Hi all, I have an ABIT IP 35 Pro board that I want to start playing around with. I peeled off the sticker and my bios is: W39V080FAPZ. I haven't been able to find out much about this other than it's a PLCC chip. I was wondering if I buy a couple chips - and then buy this, will it work to flash the chip I have? Or - how can I find out what number of pins my chip is? I'm just getting into this stuff, I think it's pretty fun and though I don't have a lot of money to drop it'd be kinda cool to be able to reflash dead chips. It won't let me post a link unfortunately, so the site is Sivava.com and it's the Eprom Programmer 5. It says that one reprograms plcc32... not sure if this is what I need, I assume so but I need to be sure. TY if anyone can help me, I will continue the search...poor Google LOL *Edit: I am fairly certain the chip is the same as what this reprograms, seems pretty standard as far as PLCC chips go for Bios's in motherboards but I still wonder is this an okay tool, do I need to dig further and make sure it will support reprogramming, or is it completely useless to me/is something else possibly better.
That should work fine, your flash device is listed as supported by the willem I have the same programmer and its worked fine for the bios chips i have buggered up
Thank you I did find a post on an old site about someone not being able to find the W39V080FAPZ in the software even though it's listed, but hopefully that was a case of user error
Sure enough, I downloaded the new software and the old recommended software. Nowhere in there did it have my bios chip number, :/ I'll be calling customer service to see before I buy. It was "close" but no cigar - I found a W39V040FA, which is of course different than W39V080FAPZ, but maybe it's all I need. Who knows...hopefully they will, since they say it's supported!
hi all, is there any tool available that will allow simply copy bios file downloaded from manufacturer of laptop website and copy to eeprom chip is that possible