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due to above reasons. This new technology will eliminate valuable system
down time and costly repair bills cause by BIOS failures.
III. Q: How does DualBIOS
Answer:
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1. DualBIOS technology provides a wide range of protection during the
boot up procedure. It protects your BIOS during system POST, ESCD
update, and even all the way to PNP detection/assignment.
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2. DualBIOS provides automatic recovery for the BIOS. When the first
BIOS used during boot up does not complete or if a BIOS checksum error
occurs, boot-up is still possible. In the DualBIOS
Recovery" option will guarantee that if either the main BIOS or backup
BIOS is corrupted, the DualBIOS
and correct the wrong BIOS automatically.
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3. DualBIOS provides manual recovery for the BIOS. DualBIOS
technology contains a built-in flash utility, which can flash your system
BIOS from backup to main and/or visa versa. There is no need for an OS-
dependent flash utility program.
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4. DualBIOS contains a one-way flash utility. The built-in one-way flash
utility will ensure that the corrupt BIOS is not mistaken as the good BIOS
during recovery and that the correct BIOS (main vs. backup) will be
flashed. This will prevent the good BIOS from being flashed.
IV. Q: Who Needs DualBIOS
Answer:
1. Every user should have DualBIOS
of computer viruses.
Everyday, there are new BIOS-type viruses discovered that will destroy
your system BIOS. Most commercial products on the market do not have
solutions to guard against this type of virus intrusion. The DualBIOS
technology will provide a state-of-the-art solution to protect your PC:
Case I.) Vicious computer viruses may wipe out your entire system BIOS.
With a conventional single system BIOS PC, the PC will not be functional
until it is sent for repairs.
Case II.) If the "Auto Recovery" option is enabled in the DualBIOS
and if a virus corrupts your system BIOS, the backup BIOS will
automatically reboot the system and correct the main BIOS.
Case III.) A user may override booting from the main system BIOS. The
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Introduce Dual BIOS
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