From: "Frank Haber" 

I didn't think the truly evil stuff extended to retail motherboards.  I do
know if you take a Gateway with Home, for instance, that uses an exact
equivalent of some retail motherboard, and attempt to "update"
the BIOS to get some feature Gateway never bothered with - you daid.  The
license just doesn't apply.  MS will refer you to Gateway, who will tell
you to go fish.

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