FIXING BIOS...POSIBLE?

[Greg Rozelle]

Your reading comprehension isn't too good today.

To Uncle Grumpy,

The op was not clear. He said he made a manual change on the BIOS.
They only change on the bios he could make is in the CMOS.

It is not catastrophic if you flash the wrong bios, as long as you
have the correct bios backup. Some system will detect if you are
using the wrong type of flash. I know this is from experience.


To Wally,

Where you talking to me or Grumpy?


Greg Rozelle





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[jorgen]

It is not catastrophic if you flash the wrong bios, as long as you
have the correct bios backup. Some system will detect if you are
using the wrong type of flash. I know this is from experience.

It can be catastrophic if you reboot, and you have a board with only one
bios. Asus has its crashfree protection, if you don't overwrite the boot
block, then you can recover from a bad flash. But if the bios dies
totally, then you have another problem

 

[Lil' Dave]

The subject under discussion was a BIOS UPGRADE.

WTF has that got to do with changing a setting in the CMOS!?

Screwing up an upgrade to the BIOS is a catastrophic event.

Standard procedure is to clear the cmos (bios settings) when a bios flash is
incorporated. This is done manually by a few methods, including the
temporary removal of the cmos battery.

Manually changing the bios (noted in the original post) itself it not
usually attempted by most individuals. A bios flash is a programmed change
of the bios program. Initiating this procedure is done manually to some
extent, but, is not a manual change of the bios. But, the OP could be
wording it as that's his/her understanding of the situation.

Until the OP decides to clear up the question, the matter is unresolved in
the thread.
Dave

 

[Bill Sharpe]

He's probably in a situation where he can't/doesn't have enough time to even
navigate to the BIOS defaults screen before sh*T starts to happen.
Overclockers must be careful. It can be rewarding but it must be done in
the right way to get brag rights.
I have seen bioses that automatically change back certain values if things
don't work. But it's not always that way.

Justin must have broken something or lost interest, since we haven't
heard from him again...

Bill