[plug] Windows Briefing

[Shackleton, Kevin]

You can update your BIOS from a file you can download from the supplier's
web site.  This process does not need a jumper-enable setting on typical AT
boards, although it does on Intel BX boards and presumably some clones of
these.  I usually am very skeptical of virus claims but it definitely
happened on a board a month or so ago, unless the BIOS chanced to corrupt
itself the same day as the people loaded a virus-containing application.
The board was dead dead dead, according to our POST tester.  We got a new
board in on warranty.

K.

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> From: 	Mike Holland[SMTP:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
> 
> How is this possible without shorting the jumpers on the motherboard?
> Be very skeptical about virus warnings, as somebody on this list
> explained a while back.
> 
> 
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
>