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A fallback BIOS should be standard by now Didn't Gigabyte put that onto their mainboards
by croes 2y ago
A fallback BIOS should be standard by now
Didn't Gigabyte put that onto their mainboards
- rzzzt 2y agoYes, around 2009: https://www.techpowerup.com/96967/dualbios-becomes-standard-feature-for-all-gigabyte-motherboards https://www.techpowerup.com/96967/dualbios-becomes-standard-...
- jonathanlydall 2y agoGigabyte has had dual bios motherboards since 1999, but made it standard for all their motherboards in 2009. https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/795 https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/795 As I recall, they initially introduced this feature due to a virus around the time which would intentionally corrupt BIOSes.
- patrakov 2y agoThe CIH virus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
- sebazzz 2y agoAnd any server has them. And for all the crap Lenovo laptops are these days; they also have backup BIOS. Funnily enough, most BIOS updates end with a "self-healing backup progressing" screen nowadays - which makes me wonder: do they overwrite the backup and abuse that mechanism to update the primary bios?