* don't look:
>
> > Crap.I've Flashed 100 bios' on several brands of motherboard in the last
20
> years. Not a single one ever went wrong.I blame 99% of bad flashes on
user
> ignorance.
>
> Exactly. At work I regularly update the BIOS of around 120 workstations
> and 60 Office PC, and that all over the Network. Not one flash failure
> so far. And I also update my computers at home as soon as a new BIOS
> comes out. Never ever went something wrong (I only had one flash
> failing, and that was a DLT drive that already had a failure before).
>
> And even ofor the very unlikely event that something does go wrong
> during flash, all HP systems at work and at home have BIOS recovery
> functions. Heck, even my 10 year old Kayak XU has recovery functions.
>
> As you say the reason for bad flashes is probably 99% user ignorance and
> maybe 1% something else (i.e. power outtage, crap hardware, hardware
> failure, corrupt BIOS file but even that should be avoided by good BIOS
> flash programs).
>
> The retard SkyFuck is the living proof that a computer is indeed nothing
> for everyone and that it requires more than the IQ of an average office
> plant to handle it. With all his stupid excessive crossposting he also
> left a very long and remarkable track of incompetence, ingnorance and
> stupidity. groups.google.com is your friend, SkyFuck ;-)
>
> Benjamin
You are just as silly as Skybuck.... Dont put on the newest firmware "just because" it's new, that's silly because new bios/firmware can often have different faults than the faults they are fixing, and if your updating something not broken, then you might break it..
If your updating bios's across a network then I think that's silly too because (if I was in charge of a network that big) there shouldnt be any floppy or cdrom drives attached to those pc's. Imagine if you did flash
120 pc's and then find there is an error that causes your os to fail loading, ur stuck going to all 120 pc's then.... good thing you flash'ed those pc's that had no problem!
Anyhow ;) .. your post just reminded me of the IT Tech who came and took my pc away after I fixed it (the power supply went pop and I replaced it with a old 486 supply)... He put the old power supply back in and then told me that he couldnt find the problem with it and I wasnt qualify'd to open the computer up.