Casper wrote:
On Gigabyte’s Dual BIOS X86 motherboards; the BIOS flash software is built-in into the Dual BIOS, thus a clean boot disk is no longer required with this line of X86 motherboards.
My AOpen AK79G motherboard works in a similar way. No need for a boot disk, you just double click on one exe file in windows and it will upload the new BIOS to a separate memory area in the BIOS chip, does a CRC check on it and then it reboots itself and copies the BIOS from the separate memory area to the main BIOS flash area before it does anyhing else.
Your references;
http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/DieHardBIOSLite.htmhttp://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside/DieHardBIOSII.htm(Depending on AOpen motherboard model)
AOpen's 'DieHard BIOS II' is similar Gigabyte’s Dual BIOS in relation to its core functionality. There’s a minor difference between AOpen’s ‘Die Hard II’ BIOS vs GigaByte’s “Dual BIOS” i.e. mostly on BIOS's GUI and the way you switch between BIOS versions.
Gigabtye's Dual BIOS has integrated the 'BIOS flash software' within the BIOS itself.
Most modern X86 motherboards has Windows BIOS flash access i.e. ASUS (e.g. A7N8X series), Gigabyte (e.g. GA-7N400 series, GA-7NNXP, GA-8NNXP) and ‘etc’.
Comparing nForce2/nForce3 motherboards can be a boring exercise due to the competitive nature of the market (AMD motherboard market).
References;
http://tw.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/FileList/NewTech/tech_dualbios_setup.pdf(Gigabyte's Dual BIOS).
You can even access the BIOS settings from within Windows with this motherboard (you see the familiar BIOS screen in a window).
For supported nForce2/nForce3 motherboards, BIOS settings (e.g. memory controller timings, FSB, AGP and ‘etc’) can be change from NVIDIA’s “System Utility” (free download). GUI is typically NVIDIA i.e. titanium look.
