BIOS chip replacement

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bengal85

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Hey guys The Bios chip in my computer may be dead is there any way that I can replace that myself or is the whole PC dead?

anything would be helpful because I need to get some info off the HD..
 
Depends on the motherboard, some motherboards have the bios on a socketed flash chip, others are soldered to the motherboard. But if you need to get info off a hard drive why dont you just put the drive in another computer as a slave?
 
bengal85 said:
Hey guys The Bios chip in my computer may be dead is there any way that I can replace that myself or is the whole PC dead?

anything would be helpful because I need to get some info off the HD..
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Depends on what board it is, if its removable or not. Some boards have a bios utility to reflash them too.

Put the drive on another computer and pull the info. off.

fmw said:
It is not user replaceable.
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Yes you can, but not on boards with the cmos chip soldered to the board. I've replaced a few myself.
 
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