Hi,
James Oakley wrote:
Matthew Sullivan wrote:
The full story at: http://www.giga-byte.com/gigabyte-web/whydual.htm
Probably on of the most useful boards on teh market I would say, though we would have to check that the first BIOS could be programed without altering the second BIOS code....
I saw this board a while back and was quite interested (in fact, I was thinking of picking one up). The two main reasons for having the dual flash is to protect from 1) flash virii, and 2) interrupted/corrupted flash updating. Therefore, It should be quite neat for our purposes and it doesn't matter what code you put on it.
Ah, but you missed the point that I was/am worried about. Can _we_ write our code to BIOS1 and not to BIOS2 and if our code is good in BIOS1 will it get copied to BIOS2 automatically on successful boot? How does BIOS2 deturmine if BIOS1 has corrupt code - will it detect our code as corrupt etc etc etc.... I think we need to talk to gigabyte about the board, and functionality on a technical level.
I am currently looking at building a new machine and that M/B maybe a good choice if the DualBIOS is usable...
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more later...
Yours
Mat
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