[brianl703]

I hadn't seen any that were soldered into the motherboard. That's really cheesy, and can't make dealing with warranty returns any easier for the company that chooses to solder them in.

My Epox motherboard has a bios recovery boot option. Apparently, there is a write-protected part of the BIOS that will allow enough functionality to boot from a specially prepared floppy to flash the rest of the BIOS.

[milan]

Gigabyte dual BIOS...much better. If one BIOS fails, you have a backup, which in turn allows you to copy it back over to the other. Never had to use it, but it provides peace of mind.