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swidey

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Or you could not pay $20 bucks for what your motherboard mfg will give you for free. Just send them a few emails and in a week you get a new chip. But if it is an emergency then okay, but i think i'd rather wait a week or so and get it for free.
 

Monaco

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welcome to the forums jmac17. Good link, I've been buying blanks and flashing them myself- quite a pain in the rear:)

How'd you finagle a new BIOS chip, swidey? I've not had much luck getting help from manufacturers...
 

donny_paycheck

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Monster of Rock said:
welcome to the forums jmac17. Good link, I've been buying blanks and flashing them myself- quite a pain in the rear:)

How'd you finagle a new BIOS chip, swidey? I've not had much luck getting help from manufacturers...

Neither have I. ABit charges $15US for a new chip (the 40 pin DIP kind) so I had a couple of EPROMs programmed myself as backups.

WELCOME jmac!
 

swidey

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I just sent Abit tech support an e-mail saying that i couldn't flash my bios. They then proceded to request my address, and send me one for free.:)
 

swidey

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this is a quote from my email.

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can i have your address and i will send the th7ii biso chip to you for free


Best Regards,


Jasmine Chen/BIOS CHIP Dept.
1 (510)623 0500 ext. 114
e-mail: [email protected]


:) :) :p
 

donny_paycheck

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Oct 25, 2001
swidey said:
this is a quote from my email.

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can i have your address and i will send the th7ii biso chip to you for free


Best Regards,


Jasmine Chen/BIOS CHIP Dept.
1 (510)623 0500 ext. 114
e-mail: [email protected]


:) :) :p

WTF!!!

I got an email from her too asking for $15 USD for a KR7A BIOS chip!