[SLUG] Re-flash motherboards?

From: Derek Glidden (dglidden@illusionary.com)
Date: Tue Jul 30 2002 - 12:17:37 EDT


Hi guys,
We've got here a couple of (as far as we know) perfectly good DFI
motherboards (AK-74, AM-75) that got re-flashed with apparently the
wrong BIOS and now refuse to do anything except a very good imitation of
a paperweight. Does anyone out there have the facilities to reflash the
BIOS chip directly on one of these things? (I can provide chip numbers
or photos of the boards if you need to know what the chips are.)

If someone can get them both working, you're welcome to one of them in
return. If you can only get one working, well, you can probably have it
since it's not really worth it to have to pay someone to fix just one of
them. And since we didn't pay much for them to begin with, I'd rather
find an individual who'd be willing to work on them for barter than take
them to a shop to get "fixed" since it'll undoubtedly cost more to fix
them than we paid for them.

They are capable of taking up to 1.33Ghz Athlon (maybe higher) and 1.5GB
of RAM. They're nice boards and I'd rather give them to someone who can
get them working than just throw them out even if they were pretty
inexpensive.

Please contact me off-list directly if you can do this.

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