[Elecraft] S: Re: Elecraft Utilities

[Kevin Stover]

My perspective comes from the early days of home brewing PC's.
In the "good old days" with soldered BIOS EEPROMS and manufacturer 
approved command line flash utilities it was entirely possible to trash 
a motherboard. Lose power during a BIOS update or a cosmic ray takes out 
a section of the chip (I'm only partially kidding) and you got to buy a 
new motherboard. Your chances were 60/40 at best, a little better than 
flipping a coin. Next came socketed BIOS where all you had to do after a 
failed flash was buy a new chip from AMI, Award or Phoenix.

These days with dual BIOS chips on board, BIOS backed up to hard drive 
and GUI flash utilities it's a lot easier to recover from a failed flash 
and not nearly as expensive, but failures still happen. That's with mobo 
manufacturer approved and supplied utilities. How many posts do we get 
here a month from folks who have to do an EEINIT or at the very least 
re-flash after a failure?

If I was Elecraft I would run away from this potential Pandora's Box 
rapidly.


On 4/9/2016 1:43 PM, Ken G Kopp wrote:
> Well said, Kevin!
>
> This was my initial intent when I started this thread,
> but you've done a better job of stating the obvious.
>
> 73!
>
> Ken Kopp - K0PP
>


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