BIOS image

[absic]

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! 

[Dark Mantis]

I know that you know already, but other people don't. I was wondering if runn3R knew(without cheating that is).

[runn3R]

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...

[Dark Mantis]

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.

[absic]

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!

[Dark Mantis]

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.