DFI, a god send

archaeic_bloke · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:27 am Post subject: DFI, a god send

hey i just updated my bios.. and...
(your expecting some horror story?)
well unlike a lot of other people who kill their bios, DFI made it super easy for me.. all i did just now, was DL the bios flash to my floppy and boot from my floppy, thats it.. eveyrhting worked perfectly.. i must say im really impressed. i just have one question though. should i be noticing any difference at all? the bios update says it will support more memory, and updated memory controller or something.. i donno, should i be noticing something different? cause it runs the zact same..
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gmoney · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 1:30 am Post subject:

updating bios might allow for dif. processor revisions ... and usually u should only update bios when ur having a problem like that...
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Josh · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 3:17 am Post subject:

you may get a few more options in the BIOS too, nothing special, but if yoiu are having problems its always worth doing.

I know that ABIT are very easy to update the BIOS with. Mine lets me do it in windows, and its never failed me. Resets CMOS too.
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

A BIOS flash won't speed up your machine, all it does is (typically) add more options, allow for a new proc core, or as in your case, higher memory support. You won't see any difference at all, if you run everything exactly the same as before the flash.

In my case, a BIOS flash to my Shuttle mobo gave me all the options for memory tweaking, proc adjustements, faster RAM support (PC3200, up from PC2700), and a few other things. I had most of the options before, but the update gave me ALL of them, which was nice. Didn't make my computer faster, though.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

if there is any performance gain by updating the bios it is usually under 2%, if even that. And there are times where the updated bios can bork the system too. But a bios update is something that is easy to do if done right. But if it is done wrong it can be a nightmare.
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FreeTheRock [banned] · Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 4:20 pm Post subject:

ya as we all know from EVO Pilot he updated his BIOS and it completely messed his whole system up

now he has to get it RMA'd and then get a new one.

PUTALE · SirTweaksabit Joined: 04 Feb 2005 Posts: 361

asus also has problem with their bios update with their software. I wonder how come not many more mobo comes with bios backup in case something wrong happened, you can revert back to the old bios. They should put original bios permenently in the memory chip and when the bios update failed or has problem, you just have to switch the jumper and everything back to the original coniditon (kinda like you reset).

Noxide · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 9:29 pm Post subject:

^^^Agreed. That would help alot.
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Fishbulb · Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2005 4:45 pm Post subject:

Gigabyte has the Dual Bios thing. I recently updated my bios with the @Bios utility, it can back up the old bios and its a sinch to update it.

Im not a big fan of gigabyte, but ive had no problems with the board yet.
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EVOpilot · Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 11:12 am Post subject:

The way i did it was through A floppy disk (you can download either the bios itself or a special version that goes on floppy and flashes automatically on bootup). The Nforce 4 mobos have that fun little Nvidia flash utility that you can flash BIOS through windows.... maybe i'll give that a go too

anyway i'm starting to think it wasn't the bios update that screwed me over. I jsut picked up the SLI-DR version with new vid cards and all - it does the exact same thing the Ultra-D did. SAo maybe it's my mem or drive or something. I orderd 2gb of PQI mem and dual raptor hard drives so if it does teh same thing after i put all that in, then the power supply will be the only original part left (and it's a nice one too - Antec True Power II 550 - dual 12v rails and all)
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