On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 01:12:37PM +0100, ST wrote: > Am Montag, 12. März 2007 12:23 schrieb Stefan Reinauer: > > * ST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070312 11:58]: > > > Since i don't have an modern flash programmer (and this version of the > > > gigabyte doesn't have a dual bios) i am afraid to "brick" this mainboard. > > > > Does it have a socketed bios chip? > No, it doesn't but it seems to me as if the place for a dual bios chip is > printed but not used. It seems to be a serial chip since it has not so many > pins. At first i really thought this MB had a dual bios :-(. > > Yes. You can always use "flashrom" from the LinuxBIOS tree to flash back > > the proprietary BIOS (given you can still boot Linux ;) > Ok, that sounds good.
Be careful. One you bricked the original BIOS you will _not_ be able to boot Linux (or a DOS disk or whatever), so you will _not_ be able to reflash the BIOS... Uwe. -- http://www.hermann-uwe.de | http://www.holsham-traders.de http://www.crazy-hacks.org | http://www.unmaintained-free-software.org
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