Do you update your BIOS?

Q

Does anyone besides me update their machines BIOS regularly?

-Q

Slash

No. I am very afraid of doing it....

RN

Nope. I'm afraid too. Because I don't trust those damn undo disks.

FatTurtle

I'm afraid of it, because my power goes out regually and I'm afraid I that the power will go out when its being flashed, and my bios will be screwed up.

Q

Hmm, that's right, you ARE in Calif...

May I recommend a APC?

-Q

BOD

i did it to my athlon but i dont trust myself with my laptop. hell i havnt been in the bios anyway...

noone

i flashed once, and royally fucked the BIOS and had to find a replacement. it happened that i got the wrong update.

Q

That's always the BIGGEST problem with BIOS updates, finding them and making sure you have the right one(s).

-Q

noone

yeah it said something like for 1232445-springdale-895389589 and i had one off a few numbers

BOD

i dont know why they cant do it like thsi

gigabyte-ga7zxe-5

make it simple like...

FatTurtle

I just did and it almost screwed my computer up.

I couldn't boot to anything but the floppy and I have only 640 KB of RAM.

Luckily I found the old ROM and flashed that over and it worked fine.

That freaked me out big time.

Ka0s

HELL NO!!! Q ruined his doing it when I told him he shouldnt, mines working fine currently, theres no reason I should.

Q

I did NOT ruin it, and you didn't say ANYTHING untill afterwards.

-Q

TCPMeta

I update mine only if there's a major bug fix or if I add some hardware that it doesn't like or when the PC just starts having a mind of it's own. I'm not affraid, I have a EPROM burner so before I update the BIOS I make a copy of the old one and then update it. I've only messed up once and that was a long time ago. You shouldn't be scared to flash the BIOS. Now a days you can restore the old BIOS back by a push of a button. Also you can buy a BIOS backup for like ten bucks.

Slash

It is very professional to get a Bios Programmator connected to COM or LTP port. It's safe and reliable. And buy more flash microchips, for some instances!
~Slash & Nemo

MentalMadness

I got BIOS 1014 BETA 003 ACPI for my Asus P2B-f. Its the last bios made for my board, and i needed it for ACPI support in winXP.
Its a beta, but its still as stable and reliable as a regular version.
now it even boots off USB, LS120 and other devices!

Q

Beta meaning status or the company name?

-Q

Slash

I cannot find BIOS updates for my 486. Help! THe mainboard is Sis496-497 chipset. Also, who has a documentation for it?

stitch

Slash wrote:

I cannot find BIOS updates for my 486. Help! THe mainboard is Sis496-497 chipset. Also, who has a documentation for it?

you probly wont find anything for that machine.

RN

They probably do not support it anymore.

MentalMadness

Q wrote:

Beta meaning status or the company name?

-Q

Thats the Status. Its an Asus P2B-f Slot 1 board.

BOD

youd be suprised how much u can get about old machines...

DevilsJim89

I dont update my BIOS...dont really care to anyway. Why fix something that aint broken?

stitch

I just updated mine. It worked, went in verrry smoothly, i like asus boards, they have made updating the bios soo easy and if you mess up you can recover the orignal image from the board cd through some program that u can access without a startup disk.

Bash

my BIOS cannot be flashed, if it did, i wouldn't do it at all, a little risky for me

BOD

my athlons old board could be updated throuigh windows. which is good cos i ddint have a floppy drive

Bash

I wish my laptop was like that, but my laptop needs a floppy drive to update the BIOS, and it dosen't have a floppy drive :(

RN

I've flashed my old IBM's BIOS. Everything went smoothly. I was nervous all the way while I was doing it.

Slash

WOW! I've flashed my 486 BIOS!!!! I've found an update from 1996 for that mainboard. And flashed it using ROM Programmator, even my BIOS isn't flashable... Nemo helped me a lot, thanks...

BOD

i used to do my ahtlon but im terrified of fucking this one up, as its my olnly working PC