Need Help Locating the BIOS....

alienationware

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I need help locating the BIOS on my Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. There isn't any chip which is removable. There is this one big flat chip thing seemingly w/o pins which says SiS (C) something on it. It's close to the CMOS. Could this be the BIOS?
 
The bios chipset should already have a heat sink on top of it that often varyies in appearance depending on make and model processor. Usually it will look like a sink without a fan smaller in size then you would see on a cpu setup. But that will stand out from any other ICs seen on the board. On many board the bios chipset is soldered directly to the board itself where you would be better to send a board or in a laptop the entire unit into a factory authorized service center in order not only to swap out the chipset itself but to have them run a full diagnostics to insure integrity. A service center would be the best route for laptops since they generally made compact as use and throw units due to the limitations seen there.
 
alienationware said:
I need help locating the BIOS on my Dell Inspiron 1000 laptop. There isn't any chip which is removable. There is this one big flat chip thing seemingly w/o pins which says SiS (C) something on it. It's close to the CMOS. Could this be the BIOS?

Its a small chip about half an inch square that pops out, never saw one wih a heat sink like PC eye said, think hes thinking about the Northbridge Chip, Heres a photo of the Bios chip top left corner

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One thing better left for an authorized service center on a portable unit is the use of the DIP extraction tool to remove some chips of one type or another. If you don't put the replacement in correctly you can damage that as well as the board itself. There are also various makes and models where the chip is not just a Northbridge that are soldered in place.
 
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