When my new sys is done will i have to upgrade the bios?

[Superpabs13]

When my new sys is done will i have to upgrade the bios? Its going to be an Iwill KK-266-r motherboard w/ a 1.33 ghz tbird. If so, where do i get the update? how do i use the update?

 

[hokahknow]

Check out the Iwill website. They should have all bios and drivers for their MOBOs.

 

[4824guy]

You might need a latest release BIOS in order to have th latest CPU's work in the mobo. Plus when the mobo is new and under warranty is the best time to update the bios just incase there is a problem.

 

[rkoenn]

A couple of suggestions for flashing. Use caution, if you screw the flash process, your MB will be useless until you somehow get a chip with a good program installed. Use a clean DOS boot disk with no memory management software loaded in config.sys or autoexec.bat. Put the flash program and the new BIOS code on this disk. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THE CORRECT BIOS CODE DOWNLOADED. Some of the newer flash programs do a check to verify your new code is written for the motherboard and will warn you if not. However, they sometimes warn even when it is the correct code, but double check if you get this warning. Finally, make sure you won't have any power glitches or anything during the flash. Even if you screw it up, there are recovery methods but you will need another system with the same size EEPROM or a programming machine. Good luck.