flashing my motherboard

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by tronyca, Sep 15, 2005.

  1. tronyca

    tronyca Guest

    First of all what is flashing my motherboard. there some errors with my pc first of all it doesnt recognize my cpu my front-panel USB port dont work for some reason and also my front mic etc.

    one more thing how do i update my motherboard bus .
     
  2. p4_tt

    p4_tt Active member

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    Flashing a BIOS usually fixes or add features that were not there b4, what is the make of your mobo?
     
  3. rugripper

    rugripper Guest

    flashing is easy as long as youknow the make and model of your motherboard.to flash you have to make a boot disk from your comp on a floppy,then you drag and drop the flash bios on the floppy you just made a boot disk on[make sure you have the right size bios or it will kill you pc]then keep the floppy in the a drive restart and follow the instructions and the floopy does the work.pretty easy huh? but i hear there is some different ones then i just explain,the flashes im talking about r:awdflash,bflash these two are easy,hope this help.the bios adds updated info to the comp so it boots and runs right.id try to reinstall windows first,first fdisk then format and recover it the pc to its original state like when you bought it
     
  4. ozzy214

    ozzy214 Regular member

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    Some of the newer mother boards like asus and epox have windows based utility specific to that board that cheak for the latest update and ask if you want to flash it. Just make sure if possible to save the old bios to disk in case the new one is buggy. Sometimes new is not always a good idea.
     
  5. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    2nd that as i have a couple of motherboards from a friend that are scrap because of screwed up bios update.
     

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