On Fri, 18 May 2001, Callum Lerwick wrote:

> > We fell victim to a faulty (or incompatible) AMI BIOS flash utility
> > distributed by PC-Chips, now I'm on a crusade to return this obsolete
> > POS to it's somewhat-operational state.
> > 
> Get an identical board that works, boot it up, carefully pull its EEPROM
> while its running *cough* and replace it with the bad one. Then use a
> working flash program on it...

Even though this bending of the rules *can* work, there is still a chance
you can zap either your EEPROMS or the board that's powered up.  In other
words, don't do it on a machine you can't afford to lose.

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