-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Claude Jones wrote: > On Thursday November 29 2007 5:37:34 pm David Boles wrote: >> A BIOS manual? Never seen one from a motherboard maker. What >> you might find are BIOS updates and patches. What you >> *probably* have is a .exe to change your BIOS. *Could* be a >> bad thing. >> >> Who made the BIOS and what version/release is it? >> >> Does this help? >> >> Howstuffworks "How BIOS Works" >> >> http://www.howstuffworks.com/bios1.htm >> >> There a plenty of Google hits. > > speaking of Google hits, did you try "BIOS manual" - they do > exist, but, one must never miss an opportunity to pile on Karl, > must one? You talking to me? I was trying to help the guy. Any BIOS manual that I have ever seen was very simple to say the least. It sounded to me like he was looking for real details. > speaking of this subject, I do remember reading about a new > feature in some motherboard a couple of months ago, an embedded > Linux on a chip that you could boot into with a couple of > keystrokes - one of the things it would let you do once booted, > was flash your BIOS if you were connected to the internet The last several MBs that I have had had a built-in flash system. I have not needed to do that for some time. Last time was with a bootable floppy. - -- David -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHUDjzAO0wNI1X4QERAo5NAJ9154mGd8IvqJYy1BGY3gIRtDrwMwCgxvPK 16SCXdLVnibrdnClbYBpATY= =+0SC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
