AMD Athlon -- clock run 2x faster under linux

[justin gedge]

As I've been pondering [and searching] on the whole bios update under 
NOT windows-- I came across an interesting article that MIGHT help you--

BIOS Flashing and Hotflashing
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/03/11/bios_hotflash.html

The Author swears it's easy -- I hope I never have to use these 
techniques...

Justin Gedge


Stuart Jansen wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 16:07 -0600, justin gedge wrote:
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>>it's an idea [that seems a little more fun -- and SCARY than installing 
>>winXP for a short spell].  I guess if I totally fubar the system I can 
>>take it back to compUSA-- excercise the warranty support and claim that 
>>[somehow] the power glitched [on a laptop with a battery] while I was 
>>flashing the bios.
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>Doesn't even take a power outage. I bricked my brother's HP (running XP)
>doing a BIOS upgrade a couple months ago. Tell 'em the truth, "I tried
>to update the BIOS and now it won't boot." No need to go into detail.
>
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