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Oct 27, 2016 10:36 AM
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MisterD90
i flashed my old BIOS with a totally new one and holy shit the light flickered and i had a heart attack
WhattaYaLookingFor
Same fun as updating the firmware of the heads of the storage of a site. Aaaaaaaand we run on the failover for quite a while.
braingain
Just try turning it off and on again
Atlasraven
Are you sure you want to install Linux to the boot partition? These changes cannot be reversed.
BurntWaffleCat
alteriron
Dat feel when youre testing overclock cpu voltage and it wont stop restarting
kayleor
Did this once, fixed the issue I was having, never knew at the time I could have bricked the laptop.
kangaax
If you fear this moment, try out BIOS hot swapping
Abot4life
Actually updating the bios has fixed a number of issues that was seeing with customers Computers.
TheBryce1sRight
I had to update my bios. Computer is in the trash now..
cousteau
I know the pins you have to short circuit to reset the BIOS. Used that a couple of times.
squishybaker
no matter the computer all of them need BIOS chips as DIPP packages so you can easily replace them.
HowMuchWoodCouldAWoodDuckDuckIfAWoodDuckCouldDuckWood
That and mucking about in the registry
GoodTofuFriday
And when the progress bar seemingly stops
plastikman
Updated bios. Update reset voltage settings. Computer wouldn't boot. Stupid corsair memory.
Sc00ba5teeve
Finicky memory is such a pain in the ass
jeffgoldblumsmom
BiOs10?
techn0logic
PRINTERS
darthbiscuit
Why is it missing "you want to"?
WhyDontICare
I worked as a diag eng at a company that made Dell motherboards and every once in a while they would fit the wrong reel to the SMT machine
WhyDontICare
1) so they ended up with the wrong BIOS chip being fitted and wouldn't boot. I would carefully lift the power pins, slot in a diag card with
WhyDontICare
3) soldered back down they booted up no problem. Bit of a pain to do but it meant we didn't throw 30+ motherboards in to the scrap bin.
WhyDontICare
2) the right BIOS, boot up, carefully bridge the gap to power the onboard BIOS chip and transfer the BIOS files to it. Once the pins were
TheMightyElk
I'm never sure but nothing else fixed any of my odd random problems. ~it guy probably
nakedfeet
I had a laptop I bought on eBay fail a BIOS update and brick itself. It was already borderline-broken beforehand, though, hence updating 1/2
nakedfeet
the BIOS in the first place. After panicking and writing out a long message explaining, the seller was just like "Send it back, I'll send
nakedfeet
another." Was all OK.
jeips
put the floppy disc in, hold breath, squeeze eyes shut, pray to all gods
boxoporn
Somon explain this to a NON-IT person.
Mithi
Installing windows: trimming the nails. Updating BIOS: brain surgery
bl4gr4
In short, an bad bios update could cause irreversible damage rendering the computer completely useless.
worthyone
Power goes out or you have wrong file, computer is now useless chunk of metal and plastic.
Koztah
Well, the motherboard is.
worthyone
They asked for a non-IT. Most non-IT don't know the difference ;-)
Koztah
You're not wrong
Sc00ba5teeve
The BIOS is hardware-level software. Your computer needs it to communicate with all the bits inside. Traditionally, updating a BIOS was 1/2
Sc00ba5teeve
super risky because if it fucked up, your machine would be about as useful as a brick. 2/2
ImNotSureWhatAGoodUserNameIsSoThisWillHaveToDo
Also, even if you did everything right, but the power went out during the flashing, you'd be in trouble.
Nitrogliserin
A journey to the unknown
darthOnion
I mean it's just your basic input-output stuff
FernandoRumdebum
I've built dozens if not hundreds of PCs. I've ran incredibly large scale servers, & fixed thousands of PCs. I will never update a BIOS tho
AlexDuos
You haven't been nervous till you've pushed the update firmware button for a $10,000 wide format plotter.
MangaClub
i got a 1k 60cm plotter here...so i can somehow relate
AlexDuos
This was one of these babies http://www8.hp.com/us/en/large-format-printers/designjet-printers/z6600.html
Cheomesh
Pfft who updates the BIOS
WhattaYaLookingFor
The IT guy, when the manufacturer tells him in an A-call at 2:45 am. On the RAID controller. On the productive system. During the week.
Cheomesh
Brutal.
LogosCosmosAtomos
Never understood this... I have never had a BIOS flash go south. Dumb luck I guess
quietwalker
Working at an ISP/Computer shop in the early 90's, I ordered a PROM burner and a stack of EPROMS for just this situation.
TheFrypo
Ooooh now you've jinxed it
GoodTofuFriday
Try mobos from early 90s
Sc00ba5teeve
I have, anything made in the last 15yrs has a way to recover it, though so it's nbd.
davdavy
Had to flash mine yesterday, you know "don't fix something that ain't broke". Finally broke
repurposedschleem
Way to brick your computer dude
JosephMcCovery
Some low-end Socket 7/Super 7 boards had REALLY shitty BIOS updating tools. Almost killed an ECS board, because 1/2
JosephMcCovery
the instructions in the manual were horribly wrong. It didn't tell you that certain board revisions didn't support backing up. 2/2
Dinnerbird
Computers have ears. They listen and they enjoy jinxing things when you talk about them.
scythernoscything
https://youtu.be/WfxhsnHj1fc
Lvl41Scyther
I seem to have someone that makes my name relevant. .-.
scythernoscything
Damn it, Scyther! I told you, no scything!
UncleVinny
These days they have built in fail safes. But back in the day, wrong file meant bye bye computer.
ashleypomeroy
For ages it was the only reason my PC still had a floppy drive - the BIOS update was always a boot floppy.
RepostFromLastWeek
Unless you had another computer with an EEPROM programmer. Saved my ass so many times.
SuddenRandomFinnishGuy
About to say the same, fuking up a bios nowdays needs almost somekind of certificate of knowing how to do it
BatmansUnderPantsAreSoSoft
Thankfully gigabyte created the dual bios so fucking up means meh whatever
IDidntKnowWhattoMakeMyUsernameSoIMadeThis
I've messed mine up, but luckily just switch to backup bios on the board
Wor3q
Back in the day failed update meant finding same model of mobo and swapping while running in order to flash faulty bios die... good times :)
WhyDontICare
Ahhh, the good old days of manually assigning addresses, IRQs, NMIs....good times..good times
SuddenRandomFinnishGuy
With jumpers =)
Sc00ba5teeve
Last time I had one fail, I had to dig a floppy drive out of storage to fix it.
UncleVinny
That's the good old days of bios flashing.
WrathCore696
Yeah this was fear and worst when it would hang on the splash screen because is install and no progress bar
LegendsBlade
Well, not really. You could still reset the bios on old mbs you just used the pins.
PikkuPiko
Back in the day, we did not have these pansy software updateable BIOSes.
CommentsWithGandalf
Back in the day your bios utility was stored on to 5.25 floppy disks that you booted into. Load disk 2 for certain options.
PikkuPiko
Those were the days. No mucking around the BIOS options for the unwashed.
Ulthirm
Yes you did. You just never did it with official patches
GoodTofuFriday
We did. You just did it through dos.
daelith
Pffft, you tossed it in a UV wiper and reprogrammed it on the EEPROM writer.
PikkuPiko
No we didn't. I said "back in the day", meaning early 1990s or so.
GoodTofuFriday
I mean i have a few 1991 machines here with bios updates if you want to see them. Tanday sensation being one of them.
worthyone
we did, but it required rebooting from floppy, and if it failed or a power outage happened, whooo boy. My cousin meanwhile had a C64...(1/2)
worthyone
which you could just pop the chip out, and go buy a new bios chip...