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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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_20060523_s5_safe.htm Thanks, Ward. -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
