Gigabyte mobos to get Dual BIOS

Gigabyte announced that its proprietary Dual BIOS technology will be extended

to every single Gigabyte motherboard with immediate effect. The announcement was

made at the annual Gigabyte Computex party held on June 3 on the 84th floor of

the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

The BIOS is the initial boot-up firmware that allows PCs to find and check

all the hardware that the operating system needs to run with. If the BIOS is

somehow physically damaged or attacked by a computer virus the operating system

will not be able to boot-up and the PC will be useless. Dual BIOS provides a

backup BIOS that automatically repairs or replaces the primary BIOS when

necessary. The result is a vastly reduced Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA)

rate. First introduced by Gigabyte in 1999, Dual BIOS has traditionally been

reserved for only high-end Gigabyte motherboards due to the cost of an

additional BIOS chip.

“Most motherboard RMA issues are related to the BIOS and in the past Dual

BIOS has drastically reduced RMA rates on our high-end products,” said Jackson

Hsu, Motherboard Product Manager, Gigabyte.