<html><head></head><body>+1.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 5, 2015 3:23:01 PM PST, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale@acarver.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Vinyl is bad, it can develop charge just from motion (triboelectric<br />charging). Latex is a little better, it has a very high but finite<br />resistance which will bleed charge.<br /><br />Wear a wrist strap if you have one or keep in contact with the chassis<br />and move slowly when wearing the gloves (don't twiddle fingers, rub<br />hands together, etc.)<br /><br />On 2015-11-05 15:14, Jim Kinney wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Ouch.<br /> <br /> Ok. If you another, same bios system:<br /> <br /> Pull the bad bios, put a pull string of dental floss to not interfere with<br /> connections and boot from the good bios. Boot to flasher. Pull the good<br /> bios while the system is running but idle, and plugin the bad one and<br /> flash. Good idea to wear vinyl or latex gloves in the insertion to limit<br /> conducting material. The bios is not being used
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does have power.<br /> On Nov 5, 2015 2:58 PM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome@hopnet.net> wrote:<br /> <br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> Yup, already tried that.<br /><br /> On 11/5/15 9:40 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br /><br /> Supermicro has a technique to recover from a bad flash. Their bios' have a<br /> backup built in. Get the correct bios from their site and dig through the<br /> docs. Its near the end of the instructions on flashing the bios.<br /> On Nov 5, 2015 6:10 AM, "LnxGnome" <lnxgnome@hopnet.net> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi folks,<br /><br /> Does anyone local to Atlanta have a BIOS programmer I could make use<br /> of? I had an update not work, and the MB won't POST.<br /><br /> The BIOS Chip is in a ZIF socket and has eight 'legs' (four per side).<br /> It'
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Super Micro X8DTE MB. SM lists the part as a TTL-0775L-32Mb.<br /><br /> Lost in the bit bucket,<br /> --LnxGnome</blockquote><br /></blockquote><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><hr /><br /> Ale mailing list<br /> Ale@ale.org<br /> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br /> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /> <a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /> <br /></blockquote><br /><hr /><br />Ale mailing list<br />Ale@ale.org<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br />See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br /><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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