My HTPC is based off an Asus Pundit-R that I built with mostly leftovers back in '05. Recently it was acting very flaky, and now it can't even complete a POST half the time. The last message is usually "Bad BIOS checksum"
I'm guessing there is a possibility the BIOS chip is bad(or the whole thing is hosed).
The problem is that the thing is so unstable I don't see how I could flash it from DOS since it doesn't DO anything for the most part(won't read from the CD drive, won't boot into Windows, nothing). There is no floppy drive, so booting from a USB drive sounds like a hard way to go about it.
I do have a Willem chip burner for tuning EFI systems on cars, and it has the right sized PLCC socket. Can I just wipe the chip then program it with the BIOS .bin file, or is there some unpacking operation that happens to the .bin?
Basically, can I do a straight burn of the .bin file on the chip?
I'm guessing there is a possibility the BIOS chip is bad(or the whole thing is hosed).
The problem is that the thing is so unstable I don't see how I could flash it from DOS since it doesn't DO anything for the most part(won't read from the CD drive, won't boot into Windows, nothing). There is no floppy drive, so booting from a USB drive sounds like a hard way to go about it.
I do have a Willem chip burner for tuning EFI systems on cars, and it has the right sized PLCC socket. Can I just wipe the chip then program it with the BIOS .bin file, or is there some unpacking operation that happens to the .bin?
Basically, can I do a straight burn of the .bin file on the chip?