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  • motanya
    Senior Member
    • Nov 2021
    • 162
    • Kenya
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    Question about bios failure

    I have been really thinking about laptops and bios to be specific, according to my own analysis windows based pcs have a high likelihood of bios failing than MacBook's. Are manufacturers aware of the issue? If they are why don't they make it easier for any pc owner to revive their pc in case there is a bios failure.
    2nd, cleaning me region: how does a bios become dirty to a point it needs cleaning, how fragile is it?

    Another question regards laptops that are okay, completely fine but when you connect charger or try to switch it on it plays "dead", if you take out cmos battery and the battery for a few 2nds and reconnect them, all of sudden it now works, meaning nothing was wrong all the ics are okay, Mystery!?
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    • stj
      Great Sage 齊天大聖
      • Dec 2009
      • 31298
      • Albion
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      Re: Question about bios failure

      ME is spyware running through a seperate microcontroller - in theory if it's writing anything when power goes out the bios gets corrupted.
      another modern problem is fucking windows trying to background-upgrade bioses.
      you should NEVER flash a bios with windows running - only from dos using a usb bootdrive.

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