well i tried shorting the main bios by connecting pins 5+6 and you can also connect pins 1+7. which is suppose to trick the back up bios into thinking the main bios is not working but no luck.

it seems that the backup bios is not working on both boards, is this even possible? and if so what would of caused this?

from what i gather if you flash the bios in ntfs format flash it will not work, i couldn't find anything to say that it will damage the bios. could it be the tech who flashed it used @bios? and even if he did i should still be able to disable the main bios and make the back up bios take over right?