Hot swapping bios chips.

[Gnufsh]

I have two bios chips for the same board... I want to use one as a backup, so that I can post, then swap and flach my corrupt one. Is this possible? How?

Thanks,

-Dan

 

[Bender]

Yeah its possible to do a hotswop, I do it all to much. Make shure the chip will come out easily before you boot up and then carefully swap the chip. The flash program looks at the checksum of the CMOS so even if you use a chip from another board it will still flash.

 

[repo man11]

Be very careful to make sure and put it in correctly. There is a notch in the chip, and a notch in the base, and they must line up. For more details, go to www.wimsbios.com , and look in their FAQ's.

 

[hdj]

I've done it a lot. This is actually why i have a spare bios chip lying around and it's helped me out on numerous occasions.
Be carefull, yet decisive.

hdj

 

[Gnufsh]

Thanks for the info. I'll try it!

-Dan