All Gigabyte mobos to get Dual BIOS

MUMBAI, INDIA: Gigabyte announced that its proprietary Dual BIOS technology will be extended to every single Gigabyte motherboard with immediate effect.

The announcement was made at the annual Gigabyte Computex party held on June 3 on the 84th floor of the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

The BIOS is the initial boot-up firmware that allows PCs to find and check all the hardware that the operating system needs to run with. If the BIOS is somehow physically damaged or attacked by a computer virus the operating system will not be able to boot-up and the PC will be useless.

Dual BIOS provides a backup BIOS that automatically repairs or replaces the primary BIOS when necessary. The result is a vastly reduced Return Merchandise Authorization (RMA) rate. First introduced by Gigabyte in 1999, Dual BIOS has traditionally been reserved for only high-end Gigabyte motherboards due to the cost of an additional BIOS chip.

“Most motherboard RMA issues are related to the BIOS and in the past Dual BIOS has drastically reduced RMA rates on our high-end products,” said Jackson Hsu, Motherboard Product Manager at Gigabyte. “By extending Dual BIOS technology to our mainstream and entry level motherboards we are significantly differentiating our products from the competition and providing our customers with a better quality product.”

Hsu added, “The second highest cause of RMA goods is faulty capacitors and we’re happy to say that 100 percent of Gigabyte motherboards that are currently being produced use the best quality Japanese solid capacitors. Gigabyte strategy is to introduce high-end features on our high-end motherboards and then extend those features throughout our product range as we have with Dual BIOS and Japanese solid capacitors."