Why does the BIOS on motherboards "fly off"?
Very often, the situation "the computer did not turn on" is "treated" by flashing the bios. Here are a couple of the latest motherboards:
- We remove (solder out) the BIOS
- We read it with the programmer
- Download all versions of the bios from the website of the manufacturer of this board and this revision of the motherboard.
- We see that the chip dump does not match any version of the manufacturer's BIOS.
- Upload the most recent dump-voila-the computer again it works!
The crux of the question is this: why is a chip that essentially once when turned on gives a couple of megabytes of data (i.e. works in read-only mode) can damage its contents?
Another question: this is the second GIGABYTE board with the so-called DUAL-BIOS. So - the first chip (signed on the board as M_BIOS) damaged its contents, and the second-no (checked by the programmer). But the chip on the board couldn't check the checksum and didn't switch to the second one. Then why the whole system?
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