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[starams5]

Unless he has a surface mount setup for extracting and soldering the devices, he does not want to replace the bios chip. It is soldered on the board.
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Then he'll have to RMA the board (or return it). You're right, it is soldered on. Thought all the P5xxx boards had removable chips, but not this one.....what a pain in the butt.

 

[_JP_]

It is no design flaw, most vendors solder the packages to the board to eliminate this problem:

Hmm...I had no idea. Still, that must happen only on rare occasions. That's a situation that I've never heard of (not saying it doesn't exist).
But I agree with Starams's opinion, it is a pain if the BIOS goes bad and it makes thing more difficult for the costumer (if it's out of warranty, to pay the fix and wait the whole time).

 

[starams5]

Hmm...I had no idea. Still, that must happen only on rare occasions. That's a situation that I've never heard of (not saying it doesn't exist).
But I agree with Starams's opinion, it is a pain if the BIOS goes bad and it makes thing more difficult for the costumer (if it's out of warranty, to pay the fix and wait the whole time).

I agree, rare occasion. People just push the chip back down into the socket if it's an issue. If its still loose after pushing the chip back into the socket, the socket was defective to begin with. I personally have never owned a board with a loose chip/socket, this has never been an issue.