![]() ![]() Just pay attention to what appears on your computer screen just after you turn it on the BIOS manufacturer name will be shortly displayed (see an example in Figure 1).įigure 1: Example of a computer with BIOS from Award.įor AMI BIOS, click here to download the software. First you will need to know your BIOS company, which can be AMI, Award or Phoenix. To backup your BIOS, you will need to run the BIOS upgrade software to read BIOS contents to a file. With that we won’t be able to load the operating system and we can’t even reprogram BIOS in order it starts to operate again. What happens actually is that there are viruses – the best known is the CIH (also known as Chernobyl or Spacefiller) – that are capable to erase BIOS content from PC and the machine will be inoperative, i.e., it will not be able to boot again. ![]() Quite often it can be interesting to back up PC’s BIOS, particularly before a BIOS upgrade, as you may recover BIOS old contents in case something goes wrong in the process, and your PC will operate correctly again. ![]()
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