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BIOS Flashing

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  • 14-08-2003 10:44pm
    #1
    Dempsey
    Registered Users Posts: 20,553 ✭✭✭✭


    Will flashing my BIOS let me adjust the fsb speed on my mobo?


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    #2
    Keith@modified
    Closed Accounts Posts: 24 ✭Keith@modified


    It depends

    Do a bit of reserch on ur mobo,

    "They" say not to flash ur Bios unless u realy have to.

    It can go pear shaped so be warned.


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    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    firstly, ask around for other people with the mobo, see what firmware they have, and what options they have available in their bios. Then try and download a version that seems to unlock what you want unlocked, otherwise don't. Don't flash a mobo "just to see what happens". If it goes wrong, you;re screwed, unlike a cd-rom drive which you can just keep re-flashing.


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    Virus_Inc
    Registered Users Posts: 333 ✭✭Virus_Inc


    Actually if you screw up a bios flash it is possible to recover... its rather difficult though - you have to have another working motherboard of the same make/model which you boot up off. Once you're booted into dos or whatever you hot-swap the bios chips and reflash the dud one. (Have seen it done successfully!)


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    Mutant_Fruit
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,943 ✭✭✭Mutant_Fruit


    its possible, but very hard. But if the worst comes to the worst, some companies sell new bois chips. e.g. abit sells em for their mobo's for less than $10 a pop. i'm sure komplett would order em in if you asked nicely enough.


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    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users Posts: 26,578 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    the best advice while working with computers is

    " if it is not broken don't try to fix it"


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    Spacedog
    Registered Users Posts: 1,775 ✭✭✭Spacedog


    I tried flashing my bios trying to but a cool pic on my startup screen, it turned to be the wrong resolution or something and busted it up, luckily the guy I got it from had a damaged motherboard the same as mine and was so kind as to pry out the bios and give it to me :), never touched bios again until reciently, have a gigabyte board now which has automatic updating and failsafes.


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