"JBM" writes:
Anyway I got a new BIOS chip from www.badflash.com they'll either
program your old chip or send you a new one.

Never got email back from them, but I did call their Fremont phone
number. They won't swap my flash for me at their Fremont location,
preferring instead to charge me $25 to fedex one from Kentucky.

What a racket.

Best line "We consider flashing an at-risk operation so it isn't
covered the same way a broken board is." Ahem. If their software
worked as advertised it wouldn't be such an "at-risk" operation. One
would only have to worry about power failures, which are pretty rare
around here.

-wolfgang
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