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I’ve got a Z90D7 with a bad BIOS chip. It works fine with the chip from another unit, but the chip-switch trick during re-imaging does not seem to fix the bad chip.
I can find this chip for sale on the internet. Should it work to simply buy another chip, then use the chip-switch trick to program it to the Z90D7 BIOS, or is there more to it than that?
BIOS chips can be pretty specific. How much would you save with a non-wyse chip? Would that savings be worth it if it does work? That’s what I’d be asking myself.
Samir is right. I would never try that with a BIOS chip. Maybe the RAM or Flash memory, but never BIOS.
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I tried this but it didn’t work. I think the main issue with the chip-switch tactic is that the newer Wyse TCs don’t re-flash the BIOS from within the imaging sequence in the same manner as previously. The BIOS imaging now comes after a reboot, so with a corrupted chip, the process halts there.
Even with an older unit where the switch trick does work, there may be parts of the BIOS – related to the OS license? – that are not addressable during re-flash, so I’m kind of doubtful you could start with a blank chip.
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