Replacing BIOS Chip
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Topic: Replacing BIOS Chip
Posted By: coolbeans
Subject: Replacing BIOS Chip
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2017 at 11:14pm
| Hi, I need to replace the BIOS chip on my board, ASRock P67 Extreme4 B3. ASRock sent me a replacement chip but no instructions on how to install it. I just need to know the location of the chip on the broad. I can't seem to find any info regarding the location either in the manual or on the Web. Thank you. |
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Posted By: parsec
Date Posted: 17 Apr 2017 at 11:57pm
The BIOS chip is the only one in a socket. In the picture below, the BIOS chip is just to the left of the SATA ports, and to the right of the RESET button, at the bottom of the picture. BEFORE you remove the old BIOS chip, be sure to check the orientation of the text on the chip. You MUST put the new BIOS chip in the socket in the SAME orientation. It's hard to tell from the picture, but the BIOS chip will also have a marking like a small dot or dimple in one of the corners of the chip. It looks like that dimple is on the lower right corner of the chip, in this picture. Take a picture with your phone as a reference. You might be able to remove the BIOS chip with your fingers, but a VERY small screwdriver can be used to CAREFULLY pry the old chip out of the socket. That must be done SLOWLY do you don't damage the socket. The eight pins on the new BIOS chip must be straight and align with the holes in the socket. Press it in with your finger slowly and carefully. If the board is still mounted in the PC case, and you can't get at the chip easily, you may need to remove the board. It sounds like you don't have much experience doing this kind of work, so please be careful. If you have more questions, please ask.  ------------- http://valid.x86.fr/48rujh" rel="nofollow"> 
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coolbeans wrote:Posted By: coolbeans
Date Posted: 18 Apr 2017 at 1:37am
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Hi parsec. Thank you for your response. I found it. There seems to be a big, white and square label stuck on top of it, and I was looking for a black, rectangular-looking thingy. Hence, the confusion. I am not what I would call an expert, but I am pretty confident around computer hardware. I think I will be fine with your information to guide me. What I am nor sure about, however, is the BIOS rev on the new chip. I got the chip a few years ago when I ran into some problems with the system after an attempt to flash the BIOS to v2.2. Tech Support thought I needed to replace the chip and sent me one. In the meantime, however, I had fixed the problem by installing an old VGA card and then flashing the main board to BIOS vL3.19. That has served me well all these years, including an upgrade to Windows 10. The reason I feel the need to replace the chip now is that I recently added a GTX 1080 GPU and a bigger SSD to my system. I reinstalled Win 10 Pro. That's when I noticed that the board wasn't giving me the right DRAM frequency. There was no XMP profile option in the UEFI, which wasn't much of a problem as I set my DRAM frequency manually, but there was also no frequencies listed above 1333 for me to set. Last night, I reset the mainboard by disconnecting the computer from power, draining any residual power by holding the power button down for 10 secs and taking out the battery. I left the battery out overnight, But that didn't help. So now I'm thinking that my best choice is to start with a new chip with an older BIOS and flashing it to L3.19 from within Windows. I'd prefer to do it using Instant Flash but the Windows version is the only BIOS I can find. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated, before I delve into this morass.
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Posted By: rocktock
Date Posted: 20 Oct 2020 at 9:06am
| Hey was the issue when you attempted to flash the BIOS came when it said successful and then you pressed Enter and it boots into a black screen? If so, I had the same issue. How did you install the VGA thing, I am not very good with hardware at all |