UPDATE: Dead Compaq Presario 1200XL Laptop/Notebook
Hi!
I've heard that some motherboard makers programmed their NVRAM chips for the
first time with "special" information that the board itself could not
reset/restore if power were ever lost.
I wonder if Compaq (or, more likely, the OEM that built it) decided that
using battery backed RAM to store the BIOS was cheaper than a real ROM.
William
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