Bios hot swap.

[bluesky]

I have dead bios on Turbo board, and a running Pro2A board.
The bios version on Turbo was v2.2 and it's v1.8 on pro2a.
If I hot swap the bios, should I flash the bios on Pro2a to v2.2 to make the bios same version with Turbo?
Thanks.

 

[bluesky]

Anyone?

 

[Jiggz]

Did the bios died because of flashing problem or because of mobo problem? If it was a flashing problem and the boards seems to be identical you can try hot swapping the BIOS. But if it was a mobo problem it could also kill the working bios of the Pro2A mobo. Did you check the dead bios mobo manual to see if it can do "Boot Block"? If you have to hot swap check for the latest bios first to make sure if the dead bios booted up you can at least flash it with its corresponding bios at the first opportunity.

 

[bluesky]

Thanks.
I'm pretty sure it's bios problem.
Many people I talk to are against this hot swap. And I can't afford losing 2 motherboards, and end up using P133 system again.
I'm planning to order a bios chip and try hot swapping, well, sort of.
I know some people flash bios from hard drive. I'm wondering if I take the bios chip out from a running pro2a system, and put the bad turbo bios chip on it, and flash from bios. It seems pretty plausible to me.
But if it works, can I put the bios chip pro2a back with no problem, since it has the old bios version?
Thanks again.