BIOS update

Deron Meranda deron.meranda at gmail.com
Sat Jan 29 05:35:02 UTC 2005


On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:06:10 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 22:49 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > For what it's worth, I have had a computer hang while updating its BIOS.
> > The motherboard became a paperweight [1]. (There *are* ways of fixing
> > this, but the motherboard wasn't worth the expense).
> >
> > BIOS updates are not risk-free.

That's another reason I like Gigabyte boards; most of them come with
dual-BIOS.  If something bad happens while upgrading one, it's usually
not disastrous.  I don't know if other brands also have that feature?

-- 
Deron Meranda




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