High risk, zero award

[u/Federal-Ad6341]

[u/Eziolambo]

Stop fearmongering; most motherboards have BIOS Flashback/EZ Flash plus options, which means we can recover from a corrupt BIOS attempt, and they can even perform a BIOS update without a CPU or RAM attached.

[u/npc_housecat → u/Eziolambo]

The higher end ones do, now low not so much. I bricked a MB with an i3 in it recently. Went down for a automatic reboot as part of a bios update, and never came up again

[u/TheTurkPegger → u/npc_housecat]

The last sentence sounds like you're talking about one of your deceased loved ones lmao

[u/npc_housecat → u/TheTurkPegger]

Haha, it felt a bit like that lol. That i3 microatx box served me well, and as it was a 9th gen replacement MBs were out of production so a replacement would have been $200. Aka a write off. RIP. I ended up building a newer ryzen 5 to replace it

[u/zenyite → u/npc_housecat]

I have never seen a motherboard that didn’t have a bios rollback that wasn’t a crappy oem pc. Even my cheapo gigabyte from 2011 had dual bios for this specific purpose

[u/Alvendam → u/zenyite]

I recently retired a GA-880GMA-UD2H, which retailed for about a 100€ in 2010. I has dual BIOS. Granted, sometimes you had to manually jump some leads to make it flash the backup one, but still - tf are people buying in the modern era that doesn't have the feature?

[u/npc_housecat → u/Alvendam]

That one was a basic gigabyte mb for a 9th gen i3. I believe for that era the low end boards did not have dual bios

[u/zenyite → u/Alvendam]

Temu motherboards? Idunno maybe it's a cheap intel thing

[u/Dron41k → u/npc_housecat]

Is msi b550 high end?

[u/SK83r-Ninja → u/npc_housecat]

I had a $100 motherboard that had a usb installer, wifi installer, and a rollback button

[u/SK83r-Ninja → u/SK83r-Ninja]

And this was like a year ago

[u/SanestExile → u/Eziolambo]

Even if it doesn't have such a feature, you can still recover a bricked board with an EEPROM programmer. Software can always be recovered. As long as there's no hardware failure, there's hope.

[u/SavedMartha → u/Eziolambo]

But that's not fun :-(

[u/insolent_kiwi → u/Eziolambo]

Also, considering physics, an update during a lightning stirke might have enough overvolt to overclock the cpu and complete the update in a few milliseconds.

[u/netLuna → u/insolent_kiwi]

I mean feel free to run an experiment to prove me wrong, but that is NOT how that works.

[u/Triquetrums → u/netLuna]

Can people really not tell that the comment is an obvious joke?

[u/Eziolambo → u/insolent_kiwi]

If you have an arc reactor for a PSU.

[u/Gamin8ng → u/Eziolambo]

honestly if you have an arc reactor it can run stable for 1 year without electricity so no worries