so either of those would lead to a success flash right? I don’t want to desolder the chip as I don’t trust myself with it.
hey! I just want to add an update about my motherboard, I managed to fix it and it was really easy and straight forward
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Hi @Timmyyyy, sorry I haven’t answered, I have some personal issues to sort out.
Use the program AsProgrammer_dregmod-v3.15 (another one that recognizes the chip as a MX25U12873F should work).
First connect the adapter and select the MX25U12873F, make a backup, then click unprotect (it doesn’t matter if it’s protected or not).
Continue erasing the chip (this is where you start to see the differences between the 72F and the 73F), erase and then read, when you check you’ll notice that the chip is not completely erased.
Erase 3 or 4 times in a row. Read the chip and it should now be erased. Otherwise, delete until you see only FF left. Read the chip periodically to check.
Load the BIOS file.
Press write 3 or 4 times (once the software finishes writing you rewrite), the same file, without doing anything else.
Once you’ve done that (the fourth write (In my case there were 4)) read the chip and make a backup, compare it with the BIOS you used (I used HxD for comparison).
Done, the only problem I got was that the motherboard had lost the serial number, but to this day it still works without problems.
If after 4 times they are still not the same when comparing the backup with the BIOS, try the steps again. I almost gave up but the third time they were the same.
The problem is that the 72F and 73F have differences in the addresses.
I hope you manage to solve it and that this helps whoever needs it.
I tried this solution because I thought the motherboard was lost and since I couldn’t find anything on any forum I decided to try.
Hey! Thanks for the reply, I’m glad that I did not face those issues that you had, I just went with NeoProgrammer, I clicked detect chip and chose 73f then I made a backup of the corrupted bios then flashed the latest one and its fixed. I just did everything all in one go I didn’t even think it will work but it did so I’m happy now, I’ll probably brick this motherboard again someday in the future but now I’m confident to fix it all by myself. Thanks for the help!