and I see it mentioned sata but am not sure where to look for the infor you are asking for ! thanks for the thelp and I will be on tomorrow at some point
>>>That's good to know. I have very very few Customers these days attempt to do their own BIOS updates as most are seniors who have incredibly little hardware knowledge and would be deathly afraid to try it. Well, I'll agree to disagree with you, as I spent 7 years as a licensed A+ instructor and CNE instructor in the community college, ROP, and private computer schools teaching hardware, server, and network repairs. We had lab midterms and lab finals that included these specific procedures for flashing BIOSes on desktop PCs primarily and some laptops. My data was collected while teaching hundreds of students these curriculae, and more than 9/10 times, (thus the 95% number), they would brick the Mobos while attempting to flash them, even with published lab manuals in front of them showing them how to do it.
We would have a stack of bricked Mobos in our storage closets that we would send out for recycling, as most of them didn't have removable or socketed BIOSes like they used to in the early days of PC computing. Most of us instructors were responsible for providing feeback on the lab exercises to the authors and publishers of the lab manuals including myself. Other instructors likely have their own experiences with this, but these were the numbers I saw. And, most of the instructors I taught with at like 7 different schools all would attest to very high numbers of failure for these; all over 80% or more. In the last 15 years; I've only had a handful of Customers ever attempt this, and in all but 1 case, they indeed borked their Mobos, and had to pay me to find that fact out, and had to do very expensive Mobo replacement out of warranty, or simply replace their computer(s). I know some of our other volunteers here were also involved in Computer Repair certification training, as it has come up in conversations on our threads. I've also found these numbers to be consistent across the other 4 tech forums I volunteer on.<<<Which Power plan are you using?
