1200 People Have Epox Mobos That Cant Be Flashed?

Bozo Galora

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Oct 28, 1999
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saw this on hardforum, thot it was worth posting here:

I just got off the phone with Epox concerning a problem I was having while
trying to flash my BIOS to the latest version... it was a brand new board
fresh from the box and all my attempts to update my BIOS failed... after
speaking to my vendor's tech support, they forwarded me to Epox's tech
support... after explaining my situation, they told me that they had
accidentally shipped out about 1200 boards with a locked BIOS... they did
say that they would ship me a new BIOS for free but it was coming ground,
so who knows when I will see it... in the meantime, I am stuck with an Epox
board that I can only use with the March BIOS... geesh... Just wanted to let
you know.
 

Insane3D

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Yeah, that seems strange. How would they "lock" the bios in hardware? It sounds like it's the bios chip itself if they are sending a new bios chip. I guess the demand has been so high for these, they shipped first and asked questions later..;) Glad mine works cool...:)