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This is the situation, I flashed my gigabyte motherboard with the latest firmware. After a couple of reboots, I copied the bios firmware that's in my system with the bios utility called q-flash on to a removable medium. Using the md5 checksum, i compare the original firmware and the bios firmware. On each reboot they're different. Is this normal even though I haven't altered the bios settings or cmos?

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I'm assuming the checksum only changes because the BIOS has to save new settings every time your system boots up.

With the latest news about bios rootkits, I've been a bit paranoid. Especially with my computer making unusual spurious outbound connections to consumer isp, I can't be too careful.

If the bios is saving new settings shouldn't only the cmos change and not the bios firmware?

Message edited by monkeymayhem on 07-23-2009 at 04:26:39 AM

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