Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. How was I to know that my
lights would flicker, just as I made it halfway through the flash. Go
figure. In this instance, I was able to recover. In 1998, at the birth
of another OS, I tried to flash my motherboard from the same type of
advice as found on this board, and I nuked my motherboard. It was a
month before I could afford another one.



On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:40:52 -0500, Adam Albright wrote:
[color=blue]
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 10:22:02 -0700, pednau
> <pednau@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>[color=green]
>>I had the problem of my computer shutting down unexpectedly which i
>>reported . windows help advised that the problem might be in the bios
>>between the processors and the mothrboard and they recommended a bios
>>upgrade. How do i go about that?/[/color]
>
> Go to your vendor's web site (if you bought a name brand like Dell or
> Gateway) or go to the maker of your motherboard if your build your own
> or had somebody build you a system. Be sure you have your exact make,
> model and revision number which should be stamped on the motherboard.
>
> Click the Windows Start button, type in 'system', then write down the
> version of BIOS you currently have installed. If there is a newer
> version, you may wish to install it. Some companies now provide a
> automated means where downloading and installing a BIOS upgrade is as
> simple as downloading and installing any software. Others require to put
> the files on a floppy and flash from that.
>
> The process of "flashing" your BIOS is straight forward enough, takes at
> most a few minutes. However you shouldn't do it UNLESS you have a
> specific reason. Don't flash your BIOS just because there is a newer
> version. Unlike installing software, flashing your BIOS actually
> rewrites the code contained in one of the chips on your motherboard. The
> risk factor is maybe a 6 on a scale of 1 to 10. The risk is if something
> bad happends while you're flashing the BIOS, like a power outage, or
> Windows hangs, you're in trouble. Otherwise a safe process. If you
> decide to do it, NEVER stop in the middle. Once you start you are
> committed and should never cancel once the process starts.[/color]

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