shadowed BIOS

randy66

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Sorry for my inexperience but what does it mean that when I boot up , it says - system BIOS shadowed and video Bios shadowed , is this a good thing ??
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Hoolio

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basically the bios on the video card and motherboard is copied into the main memory and executed from there....it is meant to be faster....
 

lhgpoobaa

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as to what hoolio said, its meant to be faster, but if your system writes to that part of memory then it will screw your system and you will need to reboot.

i believe the default setting is disabled.
my system is fine and super fast with it disabled.

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