i'm paranoid that it's booting into a virtual machine because there's this boot from network option i hadn't seen before, even with no network card.

i can't even figure out how to clear the cmos on this board. there's no jumper. there's support to be a pin to short, but it isn't even there at all.

this computer is old. however, based on what i learned about ime, i know that if somebody were psychotic enough to do this - as these losers are - simply flashing wouldn't be good enough. this board wasn't designed for this, so it doesn't even have these jumpers.

deep breaths.

it doesn't matter right now. i'm not using this device. just reassemble it and put it aside for later and get back to the usb key.