Owned myself with bios upgrade

[Neurorelay]

I recently built a new computer and proceeded to flash all the updated firmware to all my parts along with the most recent drivers. I have went for two weeks not realizing that I flashed the wrong bios to my motherboard. I used a non ultra bios for the K8NS Ultra from Gigabyte. Now there is no performance difference between the two based upon the sisoft scores, however I was lacking the nice dual bios feature. Luckily, I was able to find the award bios flash utility and force flash the correct bios. Weird that the board let me program the wrong bios in the first place.

 

[UsandThem]

You can flash almost any BIOS update to your chip.

Most would render your motherboard useless.

At least you could:

1. power back up

2. had a chance to flash the correct BIOS again.

 

[madthumbs]

Right, I had to buy a new bios chip and wait two weeks once. It wasn't even the wrong bios.. it was just a buggy flash program.

 

[Alex]

thats why i like MSI... liveupdate works quite nicely

 

[madthumbs]

MSI? 2 doa mobos in a row, and one that died soon after 3 years. Heard they have a relatively short life. Loved the one I had working though. Now I primarily look at Asus boards.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: franguinho
thats why i like MSI... liveupdate works quite nicely

Yeah. Too bad that their BIOSes don't.