Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2006 at 23:22:26 +0000,
  James Wilkinson <fedora at westexe.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> David Fletcher wrote:
> > That's why it's best to flash the BIOS if an update is made available.
> 
> The alternative point of view is that flashing a BIOS is not risk free.
> If the power goes or the computer crashes while you are in the middle of
> flashing a BIOS, you may have problems. Some motherboards (those with
> Gigabyte Dual BIOS, for example) should be able to pick itself up and
> recover automatically. Some motherboards may have just enough of an
> emergency BIOS to load a DOS floppy and the flash routine (but not
> necessarily PCI/AGP/PCI Express drivers, so you may be doing this in the
> dark...) But if you're unlucky, you may end up with a dead motherboard,
> or at least one that requires a replacement BIOS chip.

If you do it a lot you can buy programmers to handle mistakes.
I had one where I was lucky to have another computer around the house with
a compatible eeprom and was able to hotflash the one I messed up.