Can BIOS upgrade damage something?

J. Epperson Dell at epperson.homelinux.net
Fri Nov 7 15:04:03 CST 2008


On Thu, November 6, 2008 23:34, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 08:48:25PM -0500, J. Epperson wrote:
>> I bricked a PE6300 like that once.  Power failure, bad UPS.  The nuclear
>> explosion came later, from management.
>
> Tech Support should be able to unbrick such boxes.  It requires, as
> Stuart mentions, a special PCI card with a flash which then is
> used to start the system, then can flash the onboard chip.
>

Thanks, Matt.  It was a long time ago.  I think someone took it home to
heat their garage.



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