"Star" wrote in message
...
BIOS chip toast... is that the worst that could happen, approx. what
does a
BIOS chip cost, and of course, no BIOS chip, no boot to Win. OS and
you are
left w/unusable machine??


I don't *think* there is anything worse that *might* happen when
flashing a BIOS. And I don't recall how much for the MR BIOS replacement
I got--that was before I even got involved in newsgroups. Easy enough to
Google it, though.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm