Do you update your BIOS?

Post by **Roofus** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:06 pm

I've never updated one. Do any of you do it?

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:09 pm

Nope......I haven't looked for BIOS updates anyway

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:12 pm

I know some motherboards have a jumper to allow write access to them, for such things as reflashing. Atleast mine does. Check your motherboard manual.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:14 pm

I have a mobo that has that

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:15 pm

I did one time, because I bought an external 180 gig firewire hard drive and my motherboard could only read 127 gig of it. So I thought maybe if I updated the BIOS, that might fix the problem. Unfortunately it didn't....

So I have 50 unusable gig right now... I wish I could access it... could use it right about now.

bizzle · Post by **bizzle** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:16 pm

Narcissus wrote:I did one time, because I bought an external 180 gig firewire hard drive and my motherboard could only read 127 gig of it. So I thought maybe if I updated the BIOS, that might fix the problem. Unfortunately it didn't....

So I have 50 unusable gig right now... I wish I could access it... could use it right about now.

Can't you make the rest of it another partition?

ccb_v2 · Post by **ccb_v2** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:17 pm

nope... had the same problem, the BIOS detects it as a limited space drive and that is all it sees. I updated my BIOS and it fixed it.

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:18 pm

I updated mine quite often back when I had my P166, but I haven't done it in in couple of years.

perry · Post by **perry** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:21 pm

I do in work quite often. Mostly only when a board is made for say Athlon XP's, then newer XP's come out since the board was made, say the New Barton's etc.

Never needed to update any of my own BIOS's.

Narcissus · Post by **Narcissus** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:24 pm

Xylene wrote: Can't you make the rest of it another partition?

Good idea, I thought about that too, but I already tried that. It just won't read anything past 127 gig.

404NotFound · Post by **404NotFound** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 2:39 pm

I only did on a new Asus mobo... Asus had a windows-based flash tool O_o

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:45 pm

have done when i had to replace the power supply and it reset the bios to not support DMA (damn thing). had to update the bios and repair (reinstall) XP to make use of the features.

Firthy2002 · Post by **Firthy2002** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 3:58 pm

Never. How do you do such a thing anyway?

perry · Post by **perry** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 4:57 pm

Firthy2002 wrote:Never. How do you do such a thing anyway?

Check with your board.

Gmc · Post by **Gmc** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:24 pm

I've never really ever needed to do it, I did it once tho, didnt make ANY difference, lol.

Firthy2002 · Post by **Firthy2002** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:26 pm

perry2175 wrote:
Firthy2002 wrote:Never. How do you do such a thing anyway?
Check with your board.

I would but my machine is an OEM one, meaning I don't know the mobo model.

Post by **Roofus** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 5:50 pm

I've never needed to update my BIOS. I've thought about it, but I remember a horror story in which the dude was updating his BIOS and it crashed after the BIOS was flashed, but before the new one was written. After that, I've been scared to.

That, and the date on my BIOS is 9/11/2002, so that's kinda neat.

perry · Post by **perry** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 6:09 pm

Yeah machines can fack up when flashing teh BIOS. It is kinda risky.

OEM machines ? Guess you'd have to contact em..

ibor132 · Post by **ibor132** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:03 pm

Depends. If it offers perfomance or stablity improvements, thats one things, but otherwise, not usually.

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Wed Sep 03, 2003 7:19 pm

If there's a reason, then I would. But usually, the only reason you'd need to reflash the BIOS is if you were adding hardware that the BIOS will not work correctly with (CPU made after the board was manufactured, larger hard drive, that kind of thing).