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In-Reply-To: <34059102.95F788BE@persprog.com> from Dave Alderman at "Aug 28, 97 10:53:54 am"
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In reply to Dave Alderman who wrote:
> 
> To everyone:  
> Why are some people afraid of flash upgrading their BIOS?  I know most 
> people on this group would not even blink at upgrading their kernel but 
> BIOS'es are another matter.   If a motherboard is not identifying your 
> CPU properly it seems an upgrade is more than justified.  Has anyone
> actually had a flash upgrade fail?

Yep!, glad I had a EPROM burner so I could do a new one :) which btw
cant be flashed....

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Søren Schmidt               (sos@FreeBSD.org)               FreeBSD Core Team
                Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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