difference between crashfree bios and crashless bios

[alpha_2000]

i was looking at motherboards with bios recovery functions and i was wondering what is the difference between crashfree bios and crashless bios can they do bios recovery like say bios flashback can or similar?

 

[nukemaster]

They are similar.

The idea is that if the bios update fails(for various reasons), the board will look on a flash drive(or C/DVD for Asus crashfree) for a bios file and flash it automatically.

I have never had to use these features(thankfully), but in general most board makers have something similar.

It is a cheaper option than the dual bios chips some boards use. In those cases a failure results in the board using the second bios chip to recover the first. This was and may still be common on Gigabyte boards.

 

[alpha_2000]

okay so it cannot fix a bricked motherboard or corrupted bios only bios update fails?

 

[nukemaster]

You can still try it. You have to place a copy of the required bios on a flash drive(most likely formatted in FAT32). That drive has to be connected after starting the system(may work before as well).

 

[alpha_2000]

okay so with crashfree bios or crashless bios it should automatically read the bios off the flash drive and fix it once its connected to a usb port?

 

[nukemaster]

Yes. What board do you have?

Check your manual because you may have to name it a certain way.

 

[alpha_2000]

well my current board is an asus m5a99fx r2.0 but im asking for a new build im wanting to do