[CentOS] BIOS upgrade side effects

Sat Jun 30 03:17:25 UTC 2007
Ted Miller <tedjeanmiller at sbcglobal.net>

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