[ale] bios chip removal?

[James P. Kinney III]

It's kind of brutal, but pull the chip and set it on a conductive
surface. Aluminum foil works fine. Make sure all the pins are in contact
for about 30 seconds. This will drain the stored data from the writeable
portion and force the chip to use the ROM portion.

On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 07:57, Geoffrey wrote:
> Okay, a bit of hardware ignorance here.  I've got an older mb that I 
> need to reset the bios on, but there's no jumper to reset or battery to 
> remove.  I've noted there is a removable ic that has a bios sticker atop 
> it.  Anyone know if I remove this chip, will this do what I want?  Or 
> will it toast this puppy?
> 
> I couldn't find a new bios from the manuf. so I went to the ami website. 
>   There was a link to another company that could provide bios updates. 
> I filled the form in, sent it off.  Got email back asking me to call a 
> 800#.  I called and after a bit of a sales pitch, I was offered new bios 
> for $69.  I couldn't believe it.  I told the guy I could replace the mb 
> for that.  I'm in the wrong business...  What a racket.
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