Taipei, Taiwan, June 5, 2009 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions recently announced that its proprietary DualBIOS™ technology will be extended to every single GIGABYTE motherboard with immediate effect. The announcement was made at the annual GIGABYTE Computex party held on June 3rd on the 84th floor of the Taipei 101 skyscraper.

The BIOS is the initial boot-up software that allows PCs to find and check all the hardware that the operating system needs to run with. If the BIOS is somehow physically damaged or attacked by a computer virus, the operating system will not be able to boot-up and the PC will be useless. DualBIOS™ provides a backup BIOS that automatically repairs or replaces the primary BIOS when necessary – without any user intervention! The result is a vastly reduced RMA rate (Return Merchandise Authorization – when faulty goods are returned to the manufacturer for repair or replacement). First introduced by GIGABYTE in 1999, DualBIOS™ has traditionally been reserved for only high-end GIGABYTE motherboards due to the cost of the additional BIOS chip.

"Most motherboard RMA issues are related to the BIOS and in the past DualBIOS™ has drastically reduced RMA rates on our high-end products," said Jackson Hsu, Motherboard Product Manager at GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd. "By extending DualBIOS™ technology to our mainstream and entry level motherboards we are significantly differentiating our products from the competition and providing our customers with a better quality product."

Hsu added, "The second highest cause of RMA goods is faulty capacitors and we're happy to say that 100% of GIGABYTE motherboards that are currently being produced use the best quality Japanese solid capacitors. GIGABYTE's strategy is to introduce high-end features on our high-end motherboards and then extend those high-end features throughout our product range as we have with DualBIOS™ and Japanese solid capacitors.

To find out more about GIGABYTE DualBIOS™ please visit the following link on the GIGABYTE website:
http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/55/tech_081226_dualbios.htm