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Should I take this risk?

MrKat
By MrKat
in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
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The motherboard I am planning on getting is the: ASUS Maximus VIII Hero, however on the back I/O it has a Bios Flashback button which someone said has accidentally pressed it and toasted their motherboard from booting to windows.

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As has been said before, there should be no risk at all, I even doubt that story you have heard is true

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Toast as in working but not booting up windows. Also its pretty easy to bump into it when plugging cables into it blindly.

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... All it does is reset the bios.

All you'd have to fix to boot is the boot order. Most UEFI bios's auto-detect which drive has the newer Windows Boot Loader (8, 8.1, 10 one) and automatically correct which drive to boot to.

Source? I've accidently reset an ASUS bios recently and it auto detected my SSD as the first boot device, even though it's in the 3rd SATA port. (Windows 10)

Only realized it reset because my overclock was gone.

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many things can stop booting when resetting bios, like the hard drive mode (its like ahci or ide i think) (there is only two lol) and the boot order

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