What's the point of a dual bios?

Discussion in 'CPU, Motherboards and Memory' started by Exfoliate, May 22, 2005.

  1. Exfoliate

    Exfoliate Geek Trainee

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    Ditto. It's a Gigabyte motherboard technology that they seem to be pretty pround of but can anyone tell me what the actual advantage of having two bioses would be? Ah, well it seems to be the trend these days, dual moniors, cpu's, video-cards, hard drives (ram obviously), what next? Dual-motherboard arrays, one with an Intel proc and the other with AMD, that would be pretty wild.
     
  2. phaedrus

    phaedrus Geek

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    i think its as a backup, so if you update your bios and it doesn't work properly, or screw up the settings badly then its just a matter of switching to the other bios, i would leave one bios alone as default then alter the other
     
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  3. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    The way I understand it, the 2nd BIOS is not an EEPROM chip. It's a hard-coded ROM chip in case you bork the main BIOS chip by flash or whatever. You can flash the main BIOS with the backup BIOS. That's one of the neat things I've seen in BIOS technology. I honestly think that and DFI's CMOS Reloaded features are two of the best ideas out there. They ought to be used more often than they are right now.
     
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  4. Addis

    Addis The King

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    Yea having a dual BIOS mobo would make me feel much better about flashing my BIOS and if i screw anything i know i can just reload the backup.
     
  5. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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  6. Exfoliate

    Exfoliate Geek Trainee

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    Thanks guys, just a something I've been wondering about for a few weeks.
     

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