Bios Rom

kylewo0 · Post by **kylewo0** » Wed May 07, 2003 7:43 pm

Hi,
I had some trouble with my games one yr so I had someone look at my cpu, They took out a peice of hardware that plugs into a pci slot. and on the pretty nice size chip sats BIOS ROM. Can anyone tell me what is this or what it does.
Thanks- I can send pictures if possible

Post by **Derek** » Wed May 07, 2003 8:08 pm

kylewo0 wrote:Hi,
I had some trouble with my games one yr so I had someone look at my cpu, They took out a peice of hardware that plugs into a pci slot. and on the pretty nice size chip sats BIOS ROM. Can anyone tell me what is this or what it does.
Thanks- I can send pictures if possible

It stores the firmware for the piece of hardware it was on. Think of it as the motherboard BIOS, only it's for that piece of hardware.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Thu May 08, 2003 6:46 am

So, they used this card to troubleshoot your PC? Or, ?

It sounds like a diagnostics card. Pix, pls.

kylewo0 · Post by **kylewo0** » Thu May 08, 2003 11:01 am

Here is the card im talking about,
See the reason we took it out was because it may have been causeing the Blue Death screen many of the times while playing a game or very few on the internet. But im ot entirely sure.
hope this pic comes out right.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Thu May 08, 2003 11:46 am

Some variety of IDE card by the look of it.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Thu May 08, 2003 12:17 pm

It is not what I thought it was. A POST diagnostics PCI card.

Post by **Derek** » Thu May 08, 2003 1:02 pm

Do you want to know what the PCI cards is, or what "BIOS ROM" means?

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:06 pm

Could be BIOS ROm for the card.

Post by **Derek** » Thu May 08, 2003 3:55 pm

hyperspace wrote:Could be BIOS ROm for the card.

Derek wrote:It stores the firmware for the piece of hardware it was on. Think of it as the motherboard BIOS, only it's for that piece of hardware.

kylewo0 · Post by **kylewo0** » Thu May 08, 2003 4:30 pm

SO does this help out the motherboard at all?

Post by **Derek** » Thu May 08, 2003 5:49 pm

kylewo0 wrote:SO does this help out the motherboard at all?

Only if you use it!!

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Thu May 08, 2003 8:28 pm

Can you post the information that you see on the large black IC chip? Or, give us a close-up picture of that IC chip? I couldn't tell you if that card would "help" the mainboard until I know what it is.

kylewo0 · Post by **kylewo0** » Sun May 11, 2003 11:39 pm

Well, on the biggest chip it says bios rom.
and thats it... Ill post another pic as well as i can so you guys can see it better

thanks

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Mon May 12, 2003 8:37 am

Sorry. The large IC chip that is sitting "below" the BIOS ROM.

Post by **Derek** » Mon May 12, 2003 11:16 am

InactiveX wrote:Some variety of IDE card by the look of it.

InactiveX · Post by **InactiveX** » Tue May 13, 2003 9:53 am

Tell us the FCC ID number on the board and it'll be easy to identify.

loophole · Post by **loophole** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:27 pm

The card is a no-name ATA-100 controller with a CMD649 chipset on there (made by Silicon Image). I have one the same (mine is made by STLabs) in my BP6 and have had no problems with it under both Windows XP and Linux (Slackware 9.0). You can find out about the chipset here (download new drivers, grab whitepapers, etc):
http://www.cmd.com/products/sii0649.asp

Hope that helps.

Boy am I glad BP6.com is back up. There's nothing quite like posting inane chatter to newsgroups.

hyperspace · Post by **hyperspace** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 10:27 pm

Thanx for clearing this up, LoopHole! Now, that I look a little more closely at the pix, you can see the two IDE connections. DOH!

loophole · Post by **loophole** » Wed Aug 27, 2003 6:50 am

Glad to be able to give something back to this message board

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