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How much space would it take to store an image of your BIOS?

1 MB
4 MB
8 MB
64 MB
128 MB
256 MB

BIOS image

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Re: BIOS image
« Reply #15 on: September 25, 2010, 01:27:24 pm »
Oooo. Don't we like our position of power! I want to know.

Actually, I already know the answer so Nah, nah, na, nah nah!  :P
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Re: BIOS image
« Reply #16 on: September 25, 2010, 01:51:12 pm »
I know that you know already, but other people don't. I was wondering if runn3R knew(without cheating that is).
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Re: BIOS image
« Reply #17 on: September 28, 2010, 11:22:06 am »
How could I not cheat ;) if is still have many bios files on my HDD even from old BX chipset motherboards? Not to mention to the newest ones...
« Last Edit: September 28, 2010, 03:59:55 pm by runn3R »
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Re: BIOS image
« Reply #18 on: October 05, 2010, 09:11:54 pm »
Right well I guess that it's time to spill the beans so to speak and let everyone know the answer. I must admit to being as in the dark about this as anyone else until I was discussing it with GGTS one day. The standard BIOS chip will hold 8MB of which 1 MB is used for the updates but to create an image of the BIOS requires 128MB on the hard drive. I couldn't believe it myself and argued the point but they assured me that it was correct. This was the reason I was told why they dont enable the Backup BIOS to Hard Drive option by default. :o
« Last Edit: October 05, 2010, 09:14:16 pm by Dark Mantis »
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
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Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
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HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
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Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
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Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
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16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
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Re: BIOS image
« Reply #19 on: October 05, 2010, 09:22:23 pm »
Well, it seems a bit like overkill to me.

I have some really heavy duty Audio Apps that don't need that much HDD space!
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Re: BIOS image
« Reply #20 on: October 05, 2010, 09:25:56 pm »
No I remember my first Windows installation version 3.11 which was considered the big one as it was for Workgroups and that only took up 23Mb on the drive.
« Last Edit: October 05, 2010, 09:46:07 pm by Dark Mantis »
Gigabyte X58A-UD7
i7 920
Dominators 1600 x6 12GB
6970 2GB
HX850
256GB SSD, Sam 1TB, WDB320GB
Blu-Ray
HAF 932

Gigabyte Z68X-UD5-B3
i7 3770K
Vengeance 1600 16GB
6950 2GB
HCP1200W
Revo Drive x2, 1.5TB WDB RAID0
16x DLRW
StrikeX S7
Full water cooling
3 x 27" Iiy