AOpen DieHard BIOS Lite, New BIOS Crash-Free Technology!

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Taipei, Taiwan, Jan 10, 2002 - Once again, AOpen cares about our customers.AOpen has committed to develop user friendly, humanity, reliability and crash-free technology for our new and old products. Once we develop a new technology we will always consider our loyal customers out there and try to support old products without getting any penny in return.

BIOS upgrade and virus are always one of the major concerns of most users. BIOS is such an important part in motherboard that a single byte failure may lead to big disaster. In order to reduce the inconvenience caused by BIOS failure, AOpen developed Die Hard BIOS technology many years ago, which contains a 2nd BIOS on high-end motherboards. However, some old or economic standard motherboards do not implement this function......Read more....

Now we are proud to announce DieHard BIOS Lite for economic motherboard users. An instant and quick BIOS recovery function which can help you to boot DOS like environment and recover your BIOS. You don't need to have 2nd BIOS to have this wonderful technology.

How Does it work?

DieHard BIOS Lite reserves an area of 64KB for a segment of code named "Boot Kernel". The Boot Kernel locates in a stand alone ROM area which allows users to boot DOS like environment to recover BIOS from floppy in case of any unexpected situation happened. The Boot Kernel area is protected by special method. It will not be altered during normal BIOS flash process, and has better virus protection ability than other BIOS code/data area. The risk of Boot Kernel damage is very low. But of course, the 2nd BIOS of DieHard BIOS is still the best way to make sure you will never affected by any virus and/or BIOS Crash.

As usual, to express our appreciation to your continuing support, AOpen is happy to present DieHard BIOS Lite and Utility on web for free download. Many successful motherboards had been retested to go with this new excellent technology:

AP5T - The first overclocking motherboard supported by Intel 430TX chipset, which starts creating the trend of overclocking ever since.

AX59 Pro - The first successful VIA motherboard on the DIY market, which supported by VIA MVP3, the era of VIA chipset has begun after that.

AX6BC Pro/Gold/Millennium - The motherboard with famous Gold Heatsink and Black color PCB, supported by Intel 440BX chipset, probably the most successful chipset even until now.

AX3S Pro Sweet Kiss and AX3SP Pro Che Che Edition - The motherboard with famous Pink color and create the age of colorful PCB.

Simply upgrade your BIOS with this useful but easy use Die Hard BIOS Lite!

http://club.aopen.com.tw/downloads/

For more information about DieHard BIOS and DieHard BIOS Lite, please refer to: http://english.aopen.com.tw/tech/techinside