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clubhi
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 Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:24 am Post subject: bios expert anyone? |
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When I flash my bios it only does about 95% of it. There is always a bit that doesn't get overwritten. The flash program shows me this in its incredible ascii art diagram.
I wonder what is the part of bios that doesn't get overwritten and is it possible to write to this at all?
I recently had a slew of viruses on my windows partion and I am having to reset my cmos everytime I boot. (ya i replaced the battery)... |
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Rainmaker
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| Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2004 2:26 am Post subject: |
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| I think it's the part of the BIOS that holds the "ultimate reset" data. i.e. reset to factory settings. |
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gatty1
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As Rainmaker said, plus there's tables of supported chipsets and CPUs and ACPI IDs etc. These tend to be in static places across BIOS builds.
I've only ever seen a system to a complete BIOS update once when using a flash utility, and that was when upgrading from V4.50 to V6.00 Award BIOS on a very old motherboard.
Generally if I want to ensure I have a good / clean BIOS and the chip is in a socket, I'll chuck it in an eeprom burner and deal with it there.
- Andy |
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