What would happen if your floppy disk failed when you did a BIOS flash?

[biohazard_nz]

I just wan't to know, because if someone used a bad floppy and it failed, would that ruin your card?

 

[pxc]

Most BIOS flash programs, especially for video cards, read the file into memory before flashing. It would be pretty boneheaded to keep pressing (I)gnore until it went through. But even that would probably warn about a checksum failure. In any case, if you managed to somehow flash a corrupted file, you'd probably have to do a blind recovery flash or install a PCI video card to recover.

More than likely your "friend" probably flashed the wrong BIOS onto the card. The same thing above applies. Either blindly recover it or install a PCI card and reflash.

 

[Sojuuk]

it wouldn't RUIN the card it would just prevent it from working until the proper bios is installed.

 

[Moloch]

nothing.
Worse case- flash the card with a different flopppy drive via use a pci card for video.
I kind of did that. the floppy drive was old and not working well and didn't take my flash well, so I got a pci card and flashed it.