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by jparade 1 view

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HI!
I was working on a machine, (AMD K6-2, 64mb RAM) and I started getting all these errors. I don't remember what they were exactly, but when I looked them up on Microsoft's KB, it said it was a hardware issue. Took the machine to a local computer repair shop, and they said the BIOS was flashed with the wrong version. But, I didn't flash the BIOS! This guy refered to as idiot) told me that this machine is shot. Now, can't the BIOS be replaced with a new chip? All I'll need is a ROM Pullerright? Thanks, JAKE

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by don christner

Yes, the BIOS can be replaced. Last I looked it was several years ago and the price was about $70. With the way prices have plummeted, I would expect the price to be about half of that. I went to Google.com, entered BIOS chip and it pulled up lotsof sites.

Don

by ann777

Yes, the BIOS may be replaced, but look carefully at the system baord around the bios chip. Sometimes when the BIOS goes, so follows the system board.

by ksreid

Why don't you just try flashing the BIOS with the correct version and updated flash? I know of repair shops that will tell you that a system is shot just to try to get you to buy some stuff, and pay a large repair bill. Try the obvious. :)

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