On Monday 31 May 2004 14:05, Amrit Hallan wrote:

It's easy to do:
- Go to your motherboard's brand web site (for instance, Asus)
- Get the latest BIOS update
- Take the BIOS chip out of the motherboard and put it on an EEPROM writer (it 
it's not an EEPROM chip, use the proper memory writer)
- Write on the BIOS chip the BIOS update you downloaded

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> My LAN card suddenly started acting weird and the person who maintains
> my computer said there might be a virus in the BIOS. Now he wants to
> change the entire mother board along with other things. I would
> appreciate if someone could tell me:
>
> [1] Can't BIOS be changed without changing the entire mother board?
>
> [2] If the BIOS has been affected, shouldn't the entire computer act
> weird instead of just the LAN card.
>
> [3] Since he has taken the computer to his workshop, he called and said
> changing the motherboard is the only option because the computer is
> neither booting from the floppy nor from the CD [ when he took away the
> computer, everything was working ok but the LAN card ], but when I
> assured him that I'd get the whole computer updated in fifteen days but
> right now I need it to finish my current work, he immediately said he'd
> install it tomorrow so that I can finish my work.
>
> Hence,
>
> [4] Should I change my maintenance guy?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Amrit
>
>
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