[ihaveanosebleed]

Is it a 'Plus' chip with the BIOS chip in a socket? With a Socket chip you could swap an updated BIOS from another Aladdin.

I'vew installed Aladdin AP's exclusivley, I found they were half the price of anything else and worked great. Flashed with M7, you don't need the L2 wire which means you don't need to remove the Mobo. If you want it automatically on all the time, from what I understand you don't even need the D0 wire, just ground the D0 pad.

All my chips stay amber when activated in protected or non-protected mode. When you say your chip goes back to geen when you hold it, makes me wonder if it's not functioning properly or a different version than the ones I have.