On Sun, Dec 14, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Marcos Favero Florence de Barros <fav...@mpcnet.com.br> wrote:
> I was wondering whether one of the reasons why old computers > fail is that the BIOS gets corrupted over time because it is > stored in rewritable media. It is, but what actually rewrites that media? In general, it's non-volatile memory, and written to only by a BIOS update operation that reflashes the NVRAM. > Many of the old computers that I'v tried to reuse seem to have > problems in keyboard, floppy and CD operation, which, I believe, > are directly related to the BIOS. > > If that is so, then perhaps flashing the BIOS might fix this > kind of problem. I've owned an assortment of hardware over the decades. My hardware issues have never involved a corrupted BIOS. The biggest culprit has been a power supply failure, which can take the motherboard with it. I've also had an assortment of hard drives go bad. I have seldom had a problem that reflashing the BIOS cured. On the occasions I have reflashed a BIOS, it was to correct an issue with the BIOS that was resolved by a manufacturer update, and I was upgrading to a new version. The existing BIOS did not simply degrade over time. > Marcos ______ Dennis https://plus.google.com/u/0/105128793974319004519 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=164703151&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
