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-----Original Message-----
> what damage can be done?
A lot... Resulting in a useless machine.
I just finished helping a friend who decided to flash his BIOS from a
Windows session instead of from a boot disk. It made his computer
completely unusable. after the power lights came on, nothing happened, no
POST.
His only two real choices were to replace the BIOS chip with a new one *for
that motherboard and version* or to re-program the BIOS chip. It is
difficult to find a replacement BIOS for some older motherboards.
Luckily we found the source code for his BIOS and I had a friend who had an
EPROM programmer. He replaced the messed up code and we got the machine
back working. Remember that if you can't boot up, you can't re-flash the
bios and if the bios is messed up you can't boot!
Like the previous advice, unless you really need the functions or fixes in
a new bios version, don't do it.
Doug
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