Thanks for all the quick replies! Bios-repair looks exactly like what
I need, I'll be buying one of the SST chips.

Maarten

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Peter Stuge <peter@stuge.se> wrote:
> maarten van es wrote:
>> flashrom recognizes the chip as winbond W39V040B, which corresponds
>> with what I can make out of the lettering on the chip.
>
> This is a 4Mbit 3.3V LPC flash chip.
>
> You could go all the way up to 16Mbit with a SST49LF160C-33-4C-NHE,
> or for 8Mbit try SST49LF080A-33-4C-NHE.
>
> Another 8Mbit option is Winbond W39V080APZ.
>
>
> I found no offers for these in .ie.
>
> http://bios-repair.co.uk/bios/eeprom.htm have 16Mbit SST, 8Mbit SST
> and 8Mbit Winbond. I would buy SST. We've seen some Winbond chips
> fail mysteriously. :\