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Author Topic: BIOS flashing scares the crap out of me!  (Read 6,481 times)

zridling

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BIOS flashing scares the crap out of me!
« on: July 29, 2005, 08:40 AM »
Having major surgery? That's nothing compared to the feeling I get working on my system. Installed some faster memory in my machine today and had to flash/update my BIOS to recognize it. I've never had a bad experience with BIOS flashes, but it's the one thing that makes me physically shake when doing it. I got so anxious waiting for the machine to fully reboot after 20 seconds of heart monitor-like beeps that I didn't breathe the whole time.
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Re: BIOS flashing scares the crap out of me!
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2005, 08:48 AM »
funny, scary and true.

i've flashed the wrong bios a couple of times. thankfully it's not such a problem if you've done a backup of the original bios first. i wouldn't risk doing it any other way.

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