Windows 7 Lock up your bios !

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jefins

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• Apr 18, 2009

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Thanks for info. I'll pull out jumper until there won't be new bios versions availiable.

 

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• Apr 18, 2009

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Yeah, thanks. Just went into my BIOS setup menu and disabled the BIOS Update Option.

 

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• Apr 18, 2009

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Thanks for this info, scary to think what people can do these days, not many people would of known about this one.

 

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Mike

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• Apr 18, 2009

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Gigabyte motherboards have a dual bios in case one is compromised by viruses or the chip fails.

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GameSlim

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• Apr 19, 2009

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How do you remove jumper from a notebook?

 

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jefins

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Mike said:

Gigabyte motherboards have a dual bios in case one is compromised by viruses or the chip fails.

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My Gigabyte moderboard died few months ago and now i have to live with one old asus motherboard because i can't afford new.

 

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• Apr 19, 2009

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GameSlim said:

How do you remove jumper from a notebook?

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My ThinkPad notebook has a setting in the BIOS menu for disabling the BIOS Update feature. It is listed in the Security submenu in the BIOS.

 

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Camride

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• Apr 20, 2009

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Just remove your BIOS chip and you'll be perfectly safe.

 

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whoosh

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Camride said:

Just remove your BIOS chip and you'll be perfectly safe.

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LOL you got straight to the heart of the matter

Why oh why did I not see that ?

 

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• Apr 21, 2009

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camride to the rescue!!

Camride you MUST take up a job with MS to write for their Troubleshoot and Help Menu's

 

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