[Gloucs] Help: EPROM Programmer wanted.

[Mark Trotman]

Glyn Davies wrote:
> Watcha GLUGites.
> 
> In a scandalous episode now known as MuppetGate I rhubarbed the BIOS on 
> my server. It had been playing up for a while (Ooopsing) and I thought a 
> BIOS upgrade might do it good. Well, it flashed said "Life is good - I'm 
> going to reboot" ........ and then never came back. The fail safe rescue 
> procedure whereby you reprogram with the old BIOS via the floppy by 
> pressing certain keys at power-on appears to be flawed in two ways:
> 
> 1) It fails
> 2) It rescues nothing
> 
> I am glad to report it does appear to be safe though - not lost any 
> fingers at least.
> 
> So, I'm looking for someone that can reprogram my BIOS chip.
> 
> It's a Winbond W29C020-90.
> 
> That's a 2Mbit (256K x 8) 5v flash chip, 32 DIL package.
> 
> I have the old BIOS and the 'upgrade' on floppy.
> 
> Anyone out there able to help?
> 
> Someone who lurks on this list has already tried and failed (hardware 
> not up to the job). Yes.... there is kudos to be had :)
> 

Glyn,

Try Clive Wall.

Cheers

Mark