From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Jan 12 20:18:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BE5137B416 for ; Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:18:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 1C9E414C58; Sun, 13 Jan 2002 05:18:44 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: Nils Holland , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FIC on updating BIOS ;-) References: <20020113001000.A92296@tisys.org> <15424.53757.481922.381948@guru.mired.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 13 Jan 2002 05:18:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <15424.53757.481922.381948@guru.mired.org> Message-ID: Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Mike Meyer" writes: > I'd say it's good advice for most users: installing a new BIOS (or > whatever) may well break something that is currently working. More importantly, a botched BIOS upgrade will render your motherboard unusable for any purpose, including that of flashing the BIOS back to a known-good version. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message