Anyone know which one is the bios chip?
 
BladeRunner
Posted: 28 May 2007 05:38 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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A TR mainboard, (Pretty sure its a tr3a), dead from water damage, bios chip is not obvious, so does anyone know which it is please?

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tr3amainboard_002.jpg

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ngvuanh
Posted: 28 May 2007 06:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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On the first photo, BIOS chip is a darker rectangle one, on top right side, above square chip next above the white label. Marked IC2501.
I hope this help.

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Posted: 30 May 2007 03:42 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Thanks for that need to swap one over from a dead mainboard to solve a password protected bios issue on a secondhand TR2mp board I got recently 8)

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ngvuanh
Posted: 30 May 2007 08:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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The laptop does not keep the password in that chip.

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Posted: 30 May 2007 05:03 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Ok from what I read so far it that’s the conclusion i came to there’s even a site selling the chip for this reason, do you know where it is stored?

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