On 2017-07-29 10:52 AM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 05:21:14PM -0400, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
There are some motherboards that are including the ability to update the
firmware from the motherboard firmware without the need to boot to an
operating system. The ASUS motherboard I have includes such a feature. It
makes doing firmware updates a lot easier.
I thought it was always like that. I don't remember booting to Windows
to upgrade BIOS of motherboard.
No, it wasn't always like that. AFAICR the ability to flash the BIOS from a
memory stick is a more recent thing. Until this latest hardware upgrade I
had not seen a motherboard that had the ability to reprogram itself without
the need of some special program which would only run under either DOS or
Windows.
In the very early days flashing a BIOS meant pulling the memory chip out of
the board and replacing it, or using a UV light to erase the EPROM
containing the BIOS and reprogram it using a device for programming EPROMs.
That was a very different time.
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