[OpenBIOS] Dual BIOS Motherboards

[Matthew Sullivan]

Hi All

I don't recall anyone saying anything about this in the recent future, but
I stumbled over the Specs to the new GigaByte motherboard (GA-BX2000)
earlier... - It offers 'Dual BIOS'

Follows is an extract of the related article on Gigabyte site:

Enter the concept of DualBIOS. The intent of DualBIOS, as you briefly
noted, is to provide a second BIOS in case of the infrequent occurrence of
a "BIOS failure". Without going into a long explanation, if the primary
BIOS "fails", the secondary BIOS takes over for the primary and you keep
running. Effectively the secondary BIOS acts as a "hot spare". If the BIOS
is actually good (electronically), but its data has become corrupted,
DualBIOS provides a copy of good BIOS code (stored in the secondary BIOS)
to allow you to use the included, automatically-activated utility to flash
the primary BIOS "back to health." If the BIOS is really dead
(electronically dead), then the secondary BIOS just keeps on going on its
own. Rather a simple, but innovative, approach to this problem.

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....

Yours

Matthew Sullivan