Dual Bios

Hi,
I got a G4MX460VTP and since it's a Dual Bios VGA Card,I'd like to know if something went wrong while updating the Bios,how to boot with the other bios.I know where's the jumper,but I just want to know all the steps to boot with it.Also is this other bios the one that came with my card,since I already updated once.
I need to change the bios because once I updated through LiveBios my Winproducer/Wincoder software keeps crashing all the time.I don't know what happened.
The only way to update the bios through LiveBios was disabling or uninstalling the Capture Drivers,if not LiveUpdate doesn't work at all.I don't know how to flash the VGA Bios with a floppy and I don't know anything about DOS.Got WinXP Home Edition and NTFS File System.If anyone could help I would Appreciated.(please excuse my English)
I got the file for the Bios,and since I updated the Bios with LiveBios,it creates a folder named"setupfiles"in program file which contains the flash bios,the one that you do with LiveBios.So I'm going to replace the bios file with other I don't know if that's correct,but I'm going to give it a try.That's what I need to know about the jumper.
Thanks
Victor

hi bubble123,
Welcome to the Forums.
From the information below, it doesn't indicate that the G580 uses a dual BIOS configuration (this means that the machine uses a single BIOS chip).
G580 datahsheet
G580 product specification sheet
In an event that the BIOS got corrupted, you may be able to recover it using these articles:
How to flash InsydeH2O EFI under DOS enviroment
BIOS Crisis recovery for some IdeaPad laptops
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