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Replacement BIOS chips and System Recovery

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korrelate:
If you buy a replacement bios chip and that truly was all that was wrong with your system is your recovery totally just plug and play or do you have to reinstall windows and then recover the image?

cheers and thanks,

K

Darthbaggins:
installed OS should be fine as they doesnt reside on the Bios chip.

suicidal_orange:
Oh dear, what did you do?

As Darthbaggins said no reinstall necessary, if you're feeling brave you can put in the new chip and boot then swap it back while turned on and flash the old chip, then you'll have a spare if it happens again.  Unless you let out the magic smoke, you can't get that back in

butre:
I haven't seen a socketed bios chip in years, what sort of hardware are you working on?

Leslieann:
It should boot up pretty much fine, may need some bios tweaks or a different driver but overall should fire up.

The two exceptions are if it's an OEM system with an OEM windows license on the chip.. Even then an update may fix it, not sure.
The other exception and it's big one is if you have more than one drive, worse, they're configured in raid. more than one, just point to the right one. On raid all I can say is good luck.

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