Hallo Peter
It is quite likely that the different sample BIOS images from the vendors are different, even if for the same hardware.
Of course they differ, but if I read 1 chip 3 times and compare the bin's - they differ too :-(
The GALEP 5 seems to be a really good piece of hardware so it seems unlikely to be the problem.
Can you get a few other flash chips for further testing?
Today I telephone with the Galep producer and he said - some chip vendors use a "writeprotection technic" that u cant use the free samples to burn your own image on it. I order some new (clean ;-)) chips. I understand these method, because one of these vendor (www.insydesw.com) offer 50 chips for free - its quite a lot of money (1 chip is about 5.90 EUR).
Cheers Thomas