16 Apr
2018
16 Apr
'18
10:41 a.m.
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:09 AM, Glen Slick <glen.slick at gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 12:08 AM, CuriousMarc via
cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
I just checked and my memory was not correct. I have a PAC 63 and a
PAC 64, but I'm not sure what the model is of the one I thought was a
PAC 65. That one doesn't have a model sticker on it. I didn't open it
up to take a look. From the BIOS POST screen it has an i440FX chipset
PII 266MHz CPU board with an AMI BIOS with a copyright of 1996. So
that's not the same as your copyright 1998 Award BIOS PAC 65.
The other ones I have are newer P3 FlexPAC boxes.
After battling for days with a Dolch 65 that
developed the two-tone
beep-of-death on boot, I finally found that it's just my BIOS ROM that has
gone bad. The BIOS happens to be an Award BIOS, says "Award 1998 PCI/PNP
686" on the chip. It's a square chip with pins on the side.
Photo here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1OtZ1AU0Hac8RlzTgbgCY4z_qcMlGWXu1
So I thought I might just ask. Anyone has a dead Dolch 65 motherboard from
which I could steal a BIOS chip. The board is actually an Advantech CI6BM-B1
industrial single board computer.
Or alternately, can someone identify what kind of ROM or EEPROM that likely
is, and provide advice on how to read the data from a good chip (I have
another good chip in another Dolch, that's how I found out what my problem
was), and program a similar chip.
Marc
I also have a PAC 65. I'll have to open it up and take a look. Wish
there weren't so many screws involved. Whatever that 32-pin PLCC part
is I should be able to read its contents with my BP Microsystems
BP-1610 device programmer. I could program a new one if I had some of
the same part on hand.