-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 At 08:22 AM 11/24/97 -0600, Brandon Crosby wrote:

Hey,

Does anyone know where specs for Award BIOS chips are? I accidentily locked mine and lost the password.

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