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Michael is correct.  Further, you can flash bios with something other 
than the a bios update from the manufacturer.  Since this runs before 
even the OS is seen, you can completely disable a computer, for good. 
That is, without pulling the bios chip and reprogramming it.

There is other hardware that can be pretty much destroyed from that 
perspective as well, but I'll leave that as an exercise for the curious.

You've got to think outside the box.  Don't think of it as a computer, 
think of it as a programmable piece of hardware.

In a past life I had to interconnect various hardware (meters and such) 
to a computer so that the computer could self test itself.  It was quite 
interesting work, much of which is still valid today.  Thus, if you can 
modify a computer in a way so that you can measure various voltages, 
then you can also adjust those voltages.

Many new bios are able to display voltage levels and temperatures.  How 
is it that the bios has access to this information?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey


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