Originally posted here by maina
i believe there is a chip in the motherboard you unplug, this will flash your bios settings. it resembles a jumper but much bigger in size. look for it in your manual.
WTF are you on about?

I suspect you are talking about "Reseting" the CMOS.. that is a jumper on many mobo's
I dunno what the Bigger thing is you mention.. BUT some mother boards DO have a jumper you need to set B4 YOU CAN flash the BIOS.. normaly that is on older mobo's

Flashing a BIOS, basicly, is to reprogram the BIOS firmware.. or the EEPROM that is.
The BIOS ROM is the first area of memory that is addressed/read after powerup/reset.
Boot is from the saying "to drag it up by its boot straps".
the mobo reads this ROM to first Power On Self Test (POST).
Then boot the Video adapter, so you can see what the hell is happening. This is the first bit you see.
Then the a more involved mem test.
check that there are FDD and IDE devices.
Not to forget important Input devices (Kbd etc .. if not disabled in the CMOS)
Now it will initilise the I/O ports (serial/parrallel etc) and a bit of other house keeping..
Then it lets you know all is well with the world.. then off it goes and looks for the boot block on the first bootable device in the que.. what ever you have set in the CMOS.

Reseting your CMOS , changes what ever setting you have in CMOS to what ever the BIOS writters set as the default..
Incorectly flashing your BIOS leaves you with a lump of exotic material that is only a curiosity to the casual observer.. Mind I have managed to recover a couple from a partial over-write.. but that was more arse than class.. 30 others were not so fortunate..


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