GS Hunt wrote:
I was looking at the suggested links on coreboot to buy bios chips, and couldn't decide what chip would work. It takes some socketed spi chip. On my particualar board it is 1 MB, but and some other 740G boards seem to have 4 and 8 MB Its an 8 pin chip. Any suggestions on a suitable bios chip would be greatly appreciated.
Flash chip size is measured in bits. Your 1Mbyte chip is 8Mbit.
You could get
Macronix 8Mbit: MX25L8005PC-15G 16Mbit: MX25L1605DPI-12G 32Mbit: MX25L3205DPI-12G
Winbond 8Mbit: W25X80VDAIZ 8Mbit: W25X80AVAIZ These are actually legacy part numbers, they have new produts but there are too many PDFs for me to list them all here. Check out http://www.winbond.com.tw/hq/enu/ProductAndSales/ProductLines/FlashMemory/Se... for the full list.
bios-repair.co.uk/bios/eeprom.htm sells some of these, not the 32Mbit, but they're a bit expensive. On the other hand they have stock, don't mind selling single quantity and they ship right away.
//Peter