> > The other way to recover is to pull the dead chip from the motherboard,
> > take it to a machine with an identical bios, write the working BIOS
> > image to a file. Then (carefully) pull the good chip while the machine
> > is powered on and drop in the bad one and write the working image to it.
>> Are you sure this isn't an urban myth?
> I've often read of it,
> but never met anyone who had tried it,
> let alone succeeded.
You don't even need identical mainboards!
Usually bios flashing software includes a force or ignore switch.
This switch has saved many an Nforce2 based 'board for me :)
awdflash /qi
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