Olschool Shuttle - SN41G bios problems!

[ElectroBlaster]

I have been on a clearing out fit and came across the remains of an SN41G shuttle. I soon remembered the bios was corrupted and the plcc carrier socket is fubard - cracked in two places. I did spend some time on this years ago learning the dark art of forced flashing with loads of command switches and just could not get the dam thing to work, so I gave up.

I also found dead SN45GV3 & SN45GV2 boards with their bios chips and sockets intact. Does anyone know if I could nab the bios chip from one of the sn45g boards, fit it into the sn41g board and then force flash it with the correct bios image? Some will say whats the point but I recently resurrected an old via epia board so im on a roll atm

 

[Bane]

Does the SN41G2 have PC3200 or PC2700 RAM fitted?

I remember PC3200 memory used to cause a problem that looked like BIOS failure stuck at a black screen when turned on. Because the BIOS setting for memory always defaulted to By Spd. That night be the issue instead of needing to reflash.

 

[ElectroBlaster]

Yeh? hmmm I will look into this. Ive never owned a working sn41g, only the sn45g. I bought it second hand for parts and the seller put in two small-ish sticks of pc2700.

The problem with this thing is you turn on, the bios kicks in but freezes with some text at the top and will not do anything else. I did a dumb thing last night, used a chip puller tool and still managed to rip a leg off the bios chip
Wasnt even being ham fisted... feeling a bit dumb lol

So the original bios is fubard along with the damaged socket. The seller had used one of those ties you get on loaves of bread to try and force the socket together. This shuttle had a really hard life.