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A kid at the shop called a BIOS flash "just a reinstall," and I had to walk outside
He said it to a customer at the front counter on Tuesday, and she nodded like she understood, which is worse. Reinstalling Windows takes 40 minutes and a license key. A bad BIOS flash on that Dell turns a working office machine into a $900 brick with no recovery, and people act like firmware is the same chore. So how many of you actually charge extra for board level stuff, or are we all still eating that risk for free?
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nancyj1124d ago
Bricked a board myself once on a client's machine, so I get why that kid's comment made you walk outside. Now I charge board level work separate, and yeah the free firmware flashers can keep eating that risk. Got tired of being the guy who turns a Tuesday into a $900 paperweight.
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