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A buddy of mine installed some crapware he downloaded off of a warez site back in the mid-2000's which reflashed his BIOS to a very hackers-esque bootsplash tha
by belthesar 4y ago
A buddy of mine installed some crapware he downloaded off of a warez site back in the mid-2000's which reflashed his BIOS to a very hackers-esque bootsplash that prevented boot. Fortunately, he had a Gigabyte board which ran a dual-BIOS config, so he was one jumper change away from getting back to his system and cleaning stuff up. I'm not sure it was ever intended to do anything more than punish someone, but the capability of doing plenty even on that tiny ROM was there.
- hulitu 4y agoCompare that with having boot settings on a UEFI partition. Partition gone, boot not possible.
- userbinator 4y agobut the capability of doing plenty even on that tiny ROM was there. That sounds more like he just got the BIOS erased and replaced with something else entirely, rather than something intended to parasitically coexist. Also, for a while, they had write-protect jumpers.