I've pulled the bios chips from a few KK266 boards and besides having the right tool to pull the chip, be sure to reset the cmos after the swap. Also, make sure you have the chip's orientation right before you try to push it into the socket. I had no problems when doing this.
So much for the right tools, my dad had the toolkit in his car 300 miles away, and I couldn't wait 3 days for it to get back so.....
... prying it out wasn't working, so I took some crazy glue, put it on the chip, then put a 6-sided die on it, let it sit for a couple minutes, pulled, and out came the chip no problem.
The new chip, even though it worked just like the other one, didn't fix my problem though, crappy mini-ITX motherboard.
Super Glue and a 6 sided die? Sounds like the right tools to me. Hahahah. Well other then that, sounds like it's time for a new Mobo.~Phish
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited September 2003
You can also use a jewelers (tiny) screwdriver. Just be very, very gentle, using a very slight rocking, twisting motion. This method takes patience, and requires the use of a screwdriver just the right size - too small and you risk gouging or chipping the BIOS chip, too large and you risk damaging the BIOS chip socket.
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Straight_ManGeeky, in my own wayNaples, FLIcrontian
edited September 2003
Pull CMOS battery, and have computer mobo connection unplugged from PSU and PSU off at switch on back or if no switch that is obviously a power switch unplug it. THEN replace, and IC pullers are cheap and will work though you CAN pry up a little on one end and then other and alternate until loose with a #0 straight screwdriver.
You need zero juice through the BIOS socket when you replace the BIOS\CMOS chip, just in case of a bent pin. Use a small piece of 1x2 or a chip pin\leg straightener on new one first, they inevitably are not bent quite right for the mobo socket when they arrive (other reason for no juice as well as no static). Once gently started and look all around with a flashlight to see all legs are in socket on both sides, bush down with thumb until the leg's thicker parts are all you see. One newly seated BIOS chip once that is done, and you might consider a new CMOS battery also as you are lilely to need to reset the CMOS table at least once in process of programming CMOS with BIOS setup program options selections(clear before first trying to program and as needed during recovery from programming attempts that radically fail, if any). Excpect possible detail differences on new chip as far as Setup details.
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... prying it out wasn't working, so I took some crazy glue, put it on the chip, then put a 6-sided die on it, let it sit for a couple minutes, pulled, and out came the chip no problem.
The new chip, even though it worked just like the other one, didn't fix my problem though, crappy mini-ITX motherboard.
You need zero juice through the BIOS socket when you replace the BIOS\CMOS chip, just in case of a bent pin. Use a small piece of 1x2 or a chip pin\leg straightener on new one first, they inevitably are not bent quite right for the mobo socket when they arrive (other reason for no juice as well as no static). Once gently started and look all around with a flashlight to see all legs are in socket on both sides, bush down with thumb until the leg's thicker parts are all you see. One newly seated BIOS chip once that is done, and you might consider a new CMOS battery also as you are lilely to need to reset the CMOS table at least once in process of programming CMOS with BIOS setup program options selections(clear before first trying to program and as needed during recovery from programming attempts that radically fail, if any). Excpect possible detail differences on new chip as far as Setup details.