Great feature of the Gigabyte m/b---dual bios

thekingofpain · 07-09-2002, 03:10 PM

I have a new GA-81HXP P4/533 board with the "dual bios" feature, it actually has 2 identical bioschips, 1 as a backup in case of virus or corruption and you can select which one to boot from, so im thinking---why cant I have one setup using default settings and the other completely tweaked out for intense gaming? 2nd bios would have the mega-cpu oc, agp-mem-vcore voltage increase, aggressive mem timing etc---anything major happens- boot from the original bios and flash the 2nd actually online! no boot disk messin around, pretty cool feature, do ya think they planned for us to use it that way? They must have? right?

jman01pa · 07-09-2002, 03:13 PM

Just out of curiosity, when you switch bios's, does it reset the other to defaults?

J

PC-HAngover · 07-09-2002, 03:19 PM

IS gigabyte a good board because im looking for a board for an Athlon XP1800 and im thinking about going with the MSI KT3 Ultra for $77

thx

thekingofpain · 07-09-2002, 09:27 PM

No it runs the 2 bios chips individually---upon boot you can select which you want to run, and they are independant of one another...

PC> Ive never had a Gigabyte board myself yet--- this is for a friend but seems killer so far...incredible features compared to the Intel P4 board I built yesterday with NO features at all--- oO {some people}---he digs it tho---