Need To Replace Security Chip

Hi,
I apologize before hand if this falls outside the terms of the forum's TOS.
I recently bought an A31 board on Ebay (fru 93P3553). When the machine booted, I got a pattern of 4 beeps repeated 4 times. I looked up the code and got a missing security chip error.
So I pulled a security chip (p/n 26P8193) from a dead A31p board (fru 26P8430), and the machine came to life. It presented a 0192 error when I pressed F1 to enter the bios, but I was given the option to press F1 again, and I was in the bios. However, I cannot boot to Windows...the machine sits still for a bit, before it presents with 2 beeps.
I looked that scenario up, and based on this thread (http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=39204), I believe all I need to do is purchase a security chip actually designed to work with my board. I'm wondering if I can have some help figuring out the fru for the security chip that corresponds to the fru on my board (93P3553). I've looked the board up in the maintence manual, but that particular board fru number isn't listed...
Additionally, my bios version is 1.09 (1NET15WW)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- Nycto
Message Edited by Nycto on 07-10-2009 06:00 PM

Security chip is "married" to the board it came with in the first place, and hence not replaceable.
You can safely junk that planar.
Cheers,
George
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