Acekard 2i on Nintendo 3DS Update Issues

After playing around with the 3DS I decided to try some of my old DS games. I have an Acekard AK2i and wanted to test it out. Lo and behold it doesn't boot. Checking the Acekard website reveals they have made an update for the Acekard 2i to allow you to load on the 3DS (please note this will not [yet] allow you to play 3DS games, just DS games).

How to Recover BIOS After Bad Flash Update

I was playing around this morning and decided to update my BIOS. Being lazy I figured I should just remote in and update via the Windows based flash tools.

Well, it crashed and I was stuck with a half written flash. Having an ASUS P5Q Pro motherboard with it's crashfree BIOS, I figured "oh I'll just restart and recover". Well that didn't go so good and the crashfree feature well, didn't even work. I tried the normal tricks, from PCI graphics card, removing everything but one stick of RAM and CPU, changing the CPU to even trying to follow beep tones that ASUS documents to aid you though crashfree (there was no tones). The board was cactus and out of warranty...

Lucky this board has a DIP socket which allows you to remove the flash IC which stores the BIOS: