Published: Monday 8th June, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: DFI (All DFI content)
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email to a friend2009's COMPUTEX trade show may have drawn to a close, but the relentless HEXUS coverage is anything but over.
With our feet back on UK soil, we're taking a look back at some of the week's other new products and we're starting today with DFI's LanParty UT P55-T3eH10 - one of the company's upcoming P55-based boards for Intel's Core i5.
We've seen no shortage of P55 boards this week - and we managed to sneak in a H57 board, too - so why are we turning the spotlight to DFI's derivative? The answer's in the attached USB cable:
DFI's board is equipped with a technology that the Taiwanese outfit has dubbed BIOSecure. What it does is allow users to flash a board's BIOS remotely from another system connected via mini USB. Oh so simple, and the board doesn't even need an additional power source.
Mighty useful if you've had a BIOS update gone wrong, and it creates a simple means of at least attempting to resurrect a seemingly dead board. DFI looks set to introduce the patented tech on its P55 boards, and we'd expect to see it on many of the company's other boards shortly after.
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By removing said component, and flashing. I thought that'd be obvious?
See above :)
It's an issue when the component is the CPUQuote
Of course, the latter problem should be fixed by this new technology, and for that DFI need big cheers!Quote
See above :)
It's an issue when the component is the CPU
That might be an issue with a board that's two or three years old. But it's not very common, really. This method also assumes that the user has a laptop laying around with Windows installed. It looks like an engineering solution which solves a problem <20% of users face <20% of the time. A better idea, I think, would be to use an existing USB port to take a thumb stick and load a BIOS image off that with some kind of button combination when powering up.Quote
does the new mobo not remind you of an asus?Quote
Absolutely great idea, although having a clip-on bios with USB port may be better, so you could just pop it off the board and onto the end of a USB cable for flashing.Quote
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