bios/security

From: *** (deichhorst@monarch.net)
Date: 01/16/03 

From: "***" <deichhorst@monarch.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 07:53:59 -0800

From: "***" <deichhorst@monarch.net> Sent: 1/15/2003
1:37:58 AM
 

 

Hi and thank you;
can anyone offer me any further insights into my problem?
thanks ***

Dear sirs/madams;

I cannot seem to get an answer to what I think technical
people should be able to answer for me either at my local
distributor or Asus support after some three emails.

I wrote enquiring about the possibility for flashing my
bios, or replacing my programmable EEPROM chip for the
following reasons.

Some time ago I was trying to use drive image software to
copy drives to create a back up disk,
The software was faulty and far too much trouble to deal
with so I abandon the idea of dual drives and went back
to a single drive;

Because of this process I have ended up with two editions
of my operating system in the recovery console;

I believe this happed due to editing the INI file and the
drive image software;

I also had a virus warning in your Award bios page when I
was adjusting settings;

I still do not know if this was a genuine virus or an
erroneous one;

I have uninstalled and reinstalled my operating system
over and over again to try and show only the single XP
home edition operating system which I have on my machine
at the present time;

I have only one question that I have been trying to get a
definite answer to for over two months, which is as
follows;

If I delete and format all removable drives to reinstall
my operating system once again is it at all possible for
any virus code to remain in the programmable EEPROM or
any other part of my Asus mother board?
And If in the process of editing the INI file as I have
mentioned, Can you tell me if I may have inadvertently
altered a file in the bios which may be causing me the
problem of still showing dual drives and showing all
kinds of duplicate files ;

Before I attempt to do something as drastic as perhaps
doing a bad flash unnecessarily I would really like an
answer to these questions;
This is the information which I found behind your award
bios page;

ASUS A7N266 acpi Bios rev 1001.A AMD athlon tm XP
1600+Memory test:524288k ok award plug and play bios
extension V1.0A.
If I find that I do need a new chip is the above
information all that you require?
Thank You best regards;
*** Eichhorst