Dimension L733R BIOS Help

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Some "Friend" of mine was messing around with my BIOS chip (little black
thing) and droped it, its gone i need a new one, does any body know
where to get one?
now it doesnt think the monitor is there and im screwed? Am I?




Specs

Modelell Dimension L733R

Image: http://www6.shizuokanet.ne.jp/usr/nob96/dell733.JPG

733 MHz Pentuim III
192 MB RAM
Windows XP Pro
NTFS
not sure bios version cuz it wont boot, if any1 can help thanks.


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Mike Lumberg

 

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Let's see if I've got this right. You so-called friend opened up the chassis
and pried out the BIOS chip from its socket, then managed to lose it? If so, I
hope the person is no longer your friend, or maybe he/she pays for a
replacement.

Really, at this point, the most straightforward and likely replacement is the
entire motherboard. There is some small chance that someone with the tools to
burn a new flash BIOS chip will respond. And the cost of a replacement BIOS
chip may well exceed the cost of an entire board.

Once you have a replacement motherboard installed, it is pretty easy to update
the BIOS on the board with the latest from the Dell web site... Ben Myers

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:36:59 +0000, Mike Lumberg
<Mike.Lumberg.1ktok2@news.computerbanter.com> wrote:

>
>Some "Friend" of mine was messing around with my BIOS chip (little black
>thing) and droped it, its gone i need a new one, does any body know
>where to get one?
>now it doesnt think the monitor is there and im screwed? Am I?
>
>
>
>
>Specs
>
>Modelell Dimension L733R
>
>Image: http://www6.shizuokanet.ne.jp/usr/nob96/dell733.JPG
>
>733 MHz Pentuim III
>192 MB RAM
>Windows XP Pro
>NTFS
>not sure bios version cuz it wont boot, if any1 can help thanks.
>
>
>--
>Mike Lumberg