[TriLUG] OT: BIOS repair

[Scott Lambdin]

If you could just borrow the bios chip to power up, you can then hot swap
your chip back in to be flashed.

(I take no responsibility for what ever might go wrong in this process.
have a fire extinguisher at hand.)


On 6/21/08, Steve Hoffman <srhoffman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I recently purchased a Dell XPS Gen 4 desktop for a pretty good price on
> Ebay.  It arrived yesterday and I was preping to install FC9 on it and
> figured since it came to me with windows, now was the best time to upgrade
> firmware since dell doesn't ship a linux version.  So I downloaded the BIOS
> and began the flash when the computer froze...nothing responded so I let is
> sit overnight hoping it would recover...and it didn't.  So this morning I
> rebooted it only to find that it's essentially bricked...  A replacement
> MoBo for that model is nearly $200 which eats up all the savings of buying
> a
> newer model.  So that got me thinking.  Does anyone know of anywhere I can
> ship a Dell motherboard to have the BIOS reflashed?  Does anyone have a
> non-functioning XPS Gen4 or Gen5 they'd like to offload cheap?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
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