Reply #27: noone is saying he failed because of incompetence

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it appears that he replace the battery, but it still didn't work.

as far as foulf play, they could have zapped the machine and fried the BIOS chip itself, opening the door for anytype of tampering.

All I am trying to point out is that "the data was lost" is a very ambiguous statement that is being turned into somethign it didn't apparently mean for non techies. Our propagandists are selling as if the harddrive was totally wiped out, but the proper interpretations from context is that the bios settings were lost.