Tom MacIntyre wrote:

On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 07:52:07 -0700, Dr. Anton Squeegee
wrote:

How is it that you came to believe E2PROMs can "somehow get erased?" As I
recall, most modern motherboard with FLASH update capability require that a
hardware jumper be manually set before they will allow any writing to the chips.

Static electricity...power surge? Chernobyl virus, before the
jumpering practice began, I think...

I'm sure the erasure was caused by NEC's Windows-based flash program
for their ND-2500A DVD writer because when I ran UniFlash to hot flash
the mobo BIOS chip, I had the chip's contents written to a file, and
that file looks like the NEC DVD writer's BIOS. The DVD writer did get
updated though.