usually most OEM's use rebranded boards from other companies, for instance, every HP i've ever ran into has had an off branded Asus board in it, and most of the Dell's we use here at school use Intel boards
if you can figure out exactly what kind of motherboard you have, who made it, and what the model it matches to retail wise you can flash the bios that way
for instance, i have an hp at home that refused to let me disable the onboard video so i could put a pci card in it, the board had an Asus MEW-VM (or something to that effect, can't remember the exact model) motherboard in it, I downloaded the bios for that board off of Asus's site, flashed it, and it's been running fine to this day 6 months or so later
just be careful doing that though, make 110% sure you know what you're doing
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