On Saturday 30 June 2007 04:17:25 Ted Miller wrote: > John Bowden wrote: > > On Thursday 28 June 2007 02:40:37 Ted Miller wrote: > >> Are there any possible undesirable effects of a BIOS upgrade? The worst > >> I can think of is something that would change my SATA drives from being > >> mapped as SCSI to being mapped as IDE. > >> > >> Ted Miller > > > > Does the board have a back up bios? If the upgrade fails (worst scenario) > > then it could leave your machine unusable. Make sure you have the correct > > bios file > > Yes, it does. I had forgotten about that until you mentioned it. With > that, I can always retrace and reconsider. > > Ted Miller > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos yep its handy having a second bios chip. I always kept my fingers crossed when updating my bios's. Did you have a look at http://www.cognitive-dissonance.org/wiki/view/Firmware+Updates I have only done bios updates with a d.o.s boot disk in the past. -- Guy Fawkes, the only man to enter the house's of Parliament with honest intentions, (he was going to blow them up!) Registered Linux user number 414240