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bilbat   10-26-2008 at 08:40:24 PM

Simply a re-post of warning from Lsdmeasap at Tweaktown (BTW - excellent GB forum):
http://forums.tweaktown.com/f69

Please DO NOT USE @BIOS!!

This cannot be stressed enough. I know Gigabyte is working on it, but as of now I cannot recommend using it AT ALL.

I have seen so many Boards killed (IE: Bricked, that is your motherboard is now a brick and you will have to RMA your board) by using @BIOS. I would guess that more then 90% of RMA's due to a bad flash, were because of @BIOS alone.

Yes it may work for you once or twice but if you keep using it you will find out the hard way it is not a good idea. Windows based flashing has always been looked down on and likely will never be a accepted or recommended method to flash a BIOS

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rochin   10-26-2008 at 08:59:08 PM
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I have been using it for 6 years on 3 different PCs and 2 laptops. No issues ever. Not to mention the use of it on many clients PCs also built by myself. Not sure what issues your having, it has always been easy to use.

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zero3one   10-26-2008 at 09:11:20 PM
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Uhm... I've used it for the last 3 computers I've built... so far, so good.

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bobbknight   10-26-2008 at 09:12:24 PM
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I like to do it from a boot able flash drive.

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bilbat   10-27-2008 at 02:21:45 AM
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Just passing along information - your mileage may vary...

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