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[4 Aug 2008 | No Comment | ]
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You don’t need to pay a measly sum of dollars just to recover from a boot block mode. Here it is folks:
AWARD Bootblock recovery:
That shorting trick should work if the boot block code is not corrupted, and it should not be if /sb switch is used when flashing the bios (instead of /wb switch).
The 2 pins to short to force a checksum error varies from chip to chip. But these are usually the highest-numbered address pins (A10 and above).
These are the pins used by the system to read the System …