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  1. October 2nd, 2003, 09:50 AM #31
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    Check the dates Trip...

    Freddy's at it again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ya_know
    Check the dates Trip...

    Freddy's at it again.

    Noted and already edited.
    Thanks, though Yak.
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  3. October 2nd, 2003, 10:01 AM #33
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    Quote Originally Posted by TripleRLtd

    Noted and already edited.
    Thanks, though Yak.
    Ok, a Yak I ain_t. You can call me Ya_k if you like...

    Not Me:
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  4. October 2nd, 2003, 10:10 AM #34
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ya_know
    Ok, a Yak I ain_t. You can call me Ya_k if you like...

    Not Me:

    That's not you?
    About that Yak:
    I'll just blame it on my keyboard,
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  5. October 3rd, 2003, 12:11 AM #35
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    I've had very few problems with flashing bioses on major brand boards.
    I use the only known proven technique. Using a clean boot disk with nothing else but the bios file and the flashing utility program. With older PII, PIII, pentium 1 boards and assorted AMD boards, I generally disable anything in the bios related to caching or shadowing bios. I even successfully flashed rom's in CDRW's. I have never updated a bios through the web update feature.

    The only time I might worry is if there is major storm in progress. That can be risky.

    I love some motherboards like Gigabyte with their dual backup bios feature to reduce the chance of a flash going bad.
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  6. October 3rd, 2003, 06:34 AM #36
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    Computers should always be connected through battery backup units. They are dirt cheap these days and eliminate any power-related worries. I have flashed quite a lot of mobos, but never had a problem.
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  7. October 3rd, 2003, 08:42 PM #37
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    Quote Originally Posted by Machine
    Do You Pray Every Time You Flash A Mobo Bios?

    I know I do.. Brand new 2K machine... Dancing around... Please work please work... "God don't let anyone hit the telephone pole outside....." Dances around nervously abit more.
    Though I doubt I have flashed as many BIOS's as most here I have never had a problem with a BIOS flashing... knock on wood now because the fact that I said that means the next one I do will go wrong, FUBAR'n whatever it is I am working on!
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  8. October 4th, 2003, 06:12 AM #38
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    A successful flash is an unsuccessful sacrificial offering of a motherboard.

    Flashing a Pcchips board (especially the M571 variants) is a form of euthanasia...
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  9. October 4th, 2003, 03:46 PM #39
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    Quote Originally Posted by jza734
    I hate aopen products, but they're better than FIC.

    I had a bunch of problems with the old PA-2013's, and the VA-503's. I think i killed three of them, and i followed their damn instructions to the frickin letter. Oh, and i killed some Octek socket 7 mobo's cause my old service manager gave me the wrong bios, what an ***.

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    Uninterupable power supploes are fairly inexpensive, now days. I have one on my bench which I use when setting up a new pc. it's saved my bacon on a couple of occasions.
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