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I once flashed a BIOS with the wrong BIOS update....

I had had my Sony Vaio Desktop for a couple of years and though it was about time to go looking around for updated drivers etc. I decided there was probably a BIOS update out there somewhere, and Sony's support website being garbage couldn't find anything there. So I opened up the computer and wrote down the Chipset and model info from the motherboard and went googling for BIOS updates. So far so good, but here's where I got hit with the stupid stick. I found a BIOS update for a motherboard model that was ALMOST the same as the one I had, the last digit was different on it I think. I decided it was close enough, even though I know better and flashed the BIOS. It seemed to go well until the reboot when I noticed that the splash screen now came up as an Intel BIOS splash screen instead of the Sony Vaio screen. The computer seemed to work okay but wasn't really any better than before.

All went fine until I wanted to fix a problem where I had a corrupted Windows file. I loaded the recivery program only to be told that the program was only for use on authentic Sony systems and it shut down. Then I found out that you can't get Sony BIOS images anywhere, so I couldn't flash it back to anything else. Basically over time my system deteriorated because I didn't want to fork out for a new OS. I ended up buying a new system just before Christmas.