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** Bios snuffed after update (vaio F801 / VT8501) Was recommended to update the bios to version R0121K5 which seemed to go fine, restarted and then 'bam' the things braindead... turns on, get LED lights, can hear the fan whizzing, CDrom spinning up but from what i gather (and ive done my research) s...

On the underbelly, wedged between the Ram ports, there is a bank of 8 dip switches...i found them whilst trying to locate a bios recovery mode jumper... does anyone know:

A. what the hell do these switches control ?

B. how can i force this motherboard into bios recovery mode ?