I ask you only to keep from crying on your keyboard as you hear this story. It is a story about what not to do. It's ver, very sad.
It was a dark and stormy night and I was working angrily on my new computer. I had just gotten windows up and running and was beginning to overclock. Overclocking wasn't going well, and I couldn't even get past 2 ghz. It didn't seem to be working quite right, so I thought that maybe I should update the BiOS. Little did I know what trouble was in store for me. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest BiOS on my other computer and put it on a disk and took it downstairs. Little did I know that I downloaded the wrong version. So, I flashed it and it never posted again. Someone from these great forums pointed me to T-Mod's site and I thought I was saved. I looked at the pictures on his website, and saw that on his Bios chips page he had pictures of PLCC and DIP chips. They both had the "Winbond" logo on them. So, I figured I'd go down and try to yank that sucker out. So I hopped over to my motherboard with a paper clip PLCC remover...and found the chip with the little "Winbond" logo. It didn't look like it had much of a socket, but I was willing to give it a try. I couldn't ge tthe paper clip to latch onto anything. I heard about using fishing string, so I went and rented some heavy duty (35 lb) stuff and used that. I threaded it under the "Winbond" chip and pulled. It wouldn't come off. I looked down and saw that I had bent some pins, and ripped out a single piece of the board's circuitry. Figuring it was now ruined, I went ahead and just removed the damn thing. A couple days later I came back down and thought to myself: "Maybe not all Bioses say Winbond". So, I went and looked around my board once more only to find a nice little chip sitting inside a socket that said "Phoenix Bios" on it. I'm still not sure what the chip is that I pulled off. I may never know. It was close to the RAM and says Winbond. I managed to pull off the actual bios chip with ease a little bit later. I'm thinking about sharpening it to a very fine point and killing myself with it.
It was a dark and stormy night and I was working angrily on my new computer. I had just gotten windows up and running and was beginning to overclock. Overclocking wasn't going well, and I couldn't even get past 2 ghz. It didn't seem to be working quite right, so I thought that maybe I should update the BiOS. Little did I know what trouble was in store for me. So I went ahead and downloaded the latest BiOS on my other computer and put it on a disk and took it downstairs. Little did I know that I downloaded the wrong version. So, I flashed it and it never posted again. Someone from these great forums pointed me to T-Mod's site and I thought I was saved. I looked at the pictures on his website, and saw that on his Bios chips page he had pictures of PLCC and DIP chips. They both had the "Winbond" logo on them. So, I figured I'd go down and try to yank that sucker out. So I hopped over to my motherboard with a paper clip PLCC remover...and found the chip with the little "Winbond" logo. It didn't look like it had much of a socket, but I was willing to give it a try. I couldn't ge tthe paper clip to latch onto anything. I heard about using fishing string, so I went and rented some heavy duty (35 lb) stuff and used that. I threaded it under the "Winbond" chip and pulled. It wouldn't come off. I looked down and saw that I had bent some pins, and ripped out a single piece of the board's circuitry. Figuring it was now ruined, I went ahead and just removed the damn thing. A couple days later I came back down and thought to myself: "Maybe not all Bioses say Winbond". So, I went and looked around my board once more only to find a nice little chip sitting inside a socket that said "Phoenix Bios" on it. I'm still not sure what the chip is that I pulled off. I may never know. It was close to the RAM and says Winbond. I managed to pull off the actual bios chip with ease a little bit later. I'm thinking about sharpening it to a very fine point and killing myself with it.
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