On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:10:49PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
On 02.03.2007 13:57, Stefan Reinauer wrote:
- Carl-Daniel Hailfinger c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net [070302 13:32]:
On 02.03.2007 13:20, Ian Walker wrote:
No. Unless you have a second flash chip with a backup of your BIOS or you can reburn your flash chip in another board.
Ah, I wouldn't want to do this then, as I use my machine regularly. It does have a Dual BIOS, so not sure if it means I can recover if something goes wrong.
Sorry, Dual BIOS usually doesn't work the way that it would save you from such a test flash.
How does it work, btw? I asked Gigabyte a couple of times a couple of years ago, but they never cared to answer.
AFAIK the chip is organized in two areas which can be flashed separately and in case of a problem the fallback image in the unflashed area is executed.
Actually, in the Gigabyte context, what Gigabyte calls 'DualBIOS Plus' really means 2 BIOS chips. See here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2001/12/07/under_closer_scrutiny/index.html
This shouldn't be confused with their 'Virtual DualBIOS', which is more like what you describe I suspect. Virtual DualBIOS is what the m57sli-s4 has, by the way (the paths on the board are there, but the second bios chip is missing).
Here's the marketing page:
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/NewTech/2006_motherboard_newtech/tech_20...
Thanks, Ward.