The bios on my 8RDA+ has managed to knacker itself again- I cleared it, went into bios to reset everything, then 5s later it reset itself and now gets stuck when it tries to load itself into RAM. This is the second time it has knackered itself for no good reason:mad:.
Anyway, what I did last time was buy another 8RDA+ very cheaply from the Ebuyer blowout deals section, and hotflash the original bios. So, this time I just reached for that board, extracted the bios chip (slightly damaging the socket in the process, but never mind:rolleyes: ) and shoved it into the other board. Unfortunately, in my haste I managed to put it in the wrong way round:eek:, it didn't go all the way in but the pins seemed to be making contact. When I realised my mistake and pulled it out again it was scorching hot:(. Apparently eeproms are surprisingly resistant to this sort of treatment, I didn't let out any of the magic smoke out, so I may not have totally killed the chip, but it sure as hell doesn't contain a usable bios any more:(:(.
Now, to the point: I know I can get a replacement chip from Epox for £10, but I'm hoping that some kind soul with the same or similar board (or better still a proper programmer thing, or one of those Bios Saviours) will hotflash my original chip for me and save me the money. If no-one wants to do it for the karma, I might be able to throw in a secondhand 10m+ cat5e network cable, or a new Ebuyer 80mm fan, or something, as a sweetener. I'll cover postage in both directions, of course.
Post here or PM me if you can help. Meanwhile, I'd better get on with resurrecting my ancient KT7A rig so the wife can write her essays....:rolleyes:.
Cheers,
Rich :¬)