i am trying to find a laptop that will run a program that flashes the bios amiflash the imb 570 thinkpad is not compatable but i do not know which to buy can i only use one with an AMI bios?

Although I am not following the logic of purchasing a computer based on a flash utility the AMIFlash Utility apparently works with many, but certainly not all, motherboards.

The motherboard manufacturer or the computer manufacturer would be the best source for the flash utility that is recommended for its' own particular BIOS.

That being said:

AMIFlash can be applied not only for AMI BIOS reflashing, but also for reflashing the BIOS from any other manufacturer (though this fact is not announced anywhere officially, of course). Special support modules for corresponding chipsets and FlashROM microchips grant this ability. It feels as though American Megatrends aims at making AMIFlash popular among its partners delivering this software to the end-users. This ides proved to be true by the fact that the utility itself appeared on AMI's official web-site a very short time ago and doesn't even have any detailed description (there is just a small readme file included into the software set). Moreover, the latest version of this utility is not always available at AMI's web-site as well. So, if you are looking for one, we suggest that you should download it here. Please, bear in mind that even though AMIFlash utility is claimed to be universal, it still doesn't allow reflashing Award BIOS on Intel 810 and Intel 815 based mainboards.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mai...os-update.html