Question Bios Chip
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From: Mike Easter on 26 Jan 2010 18:59 Chuck wrote: > No it was the bios chip on the motherboard I touched it when I was > installing the card. I can't think of any reason a bios chip should be *hot*, significantly warmer than its general environment. Some bios have a much bigger role/job than they used to. You still haven't told us anything about the specific chip or mobo in question. -- Mike Easter
From: Chuck on 26 Jan 2010 19:10 On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:59:40 -0800, Mike Easter wrote: It's a A8N SLI DELUXE
From: Jure Sah on 27 Jan 2010 19:51
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Mike Easter pravi: > Chuck wrote: > >> No it was the bios chip on the motherboard I touched it when I was >> installing the card. > > I can't think of any reason a bios chip should be *hot*, significantly > warmer than its general environment. > > Some bios have a much bigger role/job than they used to. You still > haven't told us anything about the specific chip or mobo in question. The BIOS *chip* is only active during early boot when the program is shadowed into memory or when data is being written to it trough the shadowing mechanism (very very slow ancient ISA interface aka LPC; almost never used). The chip is essentially flash memory and there is no particular reason why it should be hot, unless it is getting warmed by a hot motherboard. LP, Jure -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFLYN+NB6mNZXe93qgRAjxgAJsEQHLoCG6FBAJwdV3z5LgkNJpyNgCgn3ej unxj9TqWqqSWpr7jmaycpSQ= =U33+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |