I had completely corrupted both of my bioses a few weeks ago and nothing would work. Finally, I used the method Qwinn is referring to (I think). I put 2101 on a usb flash drive and used that method. That enabled me to get into my bios, but it still wasn't quite "right". I then used EZflash2 and all was back to normal. I still think the copy bios1 to bios2 function is a bit buggy and anyone should use it with caution.

I am still wondering what the effect would be if you tried to copy BIOS 1 to 2, where one of them was a pre-3000 BIOS and the other was a post 3000 BIOS, or even just switching from one BIOS to the other under the same circumstances. This is because of the firmware updates that the post 3000 BIOS's do (MEI firmware and something else, I think). Is everything in those firmware updates, including whatever it's updatng during the two extra restarts that happen when you update to post-3000, completely contained within it's own BIOS chip? If not, then you could wind up having parts of a 3000 updated MEI firmware running tandem with a pre-3000 BIOS, or vice versa. And even if it does, is the copy function taking all the steps that updating to the 3000 BIOS does in terms of those firmwares, such as whatever it's doing during the two extra restarts?

I did a copy of 3101 from BIOS 1 to BIOS 2 after I got it working. There was only one reboot involved. I have not tried actually booting off it yet, and I'm a bit nervous to.

From my own experiences, as well as what I've read from others, if you cross the 3000 BIOS barrier in either direction (triggering the firmware updates), you should reflash your destination BIOS an extra time so that your BIOS is updated without having to go through that process. I went back and forth at least 3 or 4 times, I didn't always notice any issues after, but I did twice, and reapplying the bios over itself resolved it both times.

Id go back to 2001 or 2101.

Qwinn is on to something. I haven't had luck having 2 usable bioses where one is pre-3000 and the other is post-3000. Whenever I try to switch between the two, updates are made that affect the other bios (probably the firmwares). Conversely, when I have both bioses pre or both post-3000, I'm able to freely switch between the two. I may have worded this post a little weird. I'll be happy to clarify if needed.

Niteshaft, I personally like 3101 very much. To the people who do not like 3101 because they've been having problems - *this very much may be the reason why*. If you only flashed it once before and had reboots/problems, try flashing it twice, once to copy the firmware and the second to get the rest of it to flash properly.