Comment on Recovery after HP tech support bricked my father's laptopparentComments−rzzzt2yYes, around 2009: https://www.techpowerup.com/96967/dualbios-becomes-standard-...−jonathanlydall2yGigabyte has had dual bios motherboards since 1999, but made it standard for all their motherboards in 2009.https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/795As I recall, they initially introduced this feature due to a virus around the time which would intentionally corrupt BIOSes.−patrakov2yThe CIH virus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)
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Yes, around 2009: https://www.techpowerup.com/96967/dualbios-becomes-standard-...
Gigabyte has had dual bios motherboards since 1999, but made it standard for all their motherboards in 2009.
https://www.gigabyte.com/Press/News/795
As I recall, they initially introduced this feature due to a virus around the time which would intentionally corrupt BIOSes.
The CIH virus? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIH_(computer_virus)