• TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    Back in the old days BIOS were not writable or you had to erase the chips with ultraviolet light or some crazy shit like that.

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      12 hours ago

      If it was UVEPROM, otherwise you needed to replace the ROM. At least fuse-based ones don’t suffer from forgetting the data on being powered off.