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BIOS FAQ

Quick BIOS update overview.

  1. Copy down your BIOS id string EXACTLY!
  2. Identify your motherboard make & model by using the Award or AMI Numbers page to compare your BIOS id string to the ones in our database. Or run the eSupport BIOS Agent scan.
  3. Download the correct BIOS file from the manufacturer's home page via the BIOS Updates page.
  4. Download the appropriate flash program from the manufacturer's home page or the Utilities Page.
  5. Flash your BIOS.
  1. What is a (Flash) BIOS ?
  2. How can I determine what BIOS is on my PC and if there is an update?
  3. How do you determine if your system has a Flash Bios chip ?
  4. Do you really need a (Flash) BIOS upgrade ?
  5. How to buy a Flash BIOS upgrade online?
  6. Where can you download Flash BIOS upgrades ?
  7. How to identify your motherboard manufacturer ?
  8. How do you flash your BIOS ?
  9. How to generate a boot disk for updating a BIOS ?
  10. How to get into your computer BIOS?
  11. What to do when the Award flasher reports Insufficient memory
  12. What can go wrong when flashing a BIOS?
  13. How to recover a corrupt BIOS ?
  14. What can you do if your BIOS is buggy and their is no update available ?
  15. Why aren't there no Flash BIOS on the Award or AMI site ?
  16. What are the definitions of PROM, EPROM, EPROM Burner?
  17. What does "The program file's part number does not match with your system" mean?
  18. My BIOS/Operating System doesn't recognize my 12GB/32GB/64GB/128GB hard disk
  19. How can you clear your BIOS with the DOS DEBUG command ?
  20. How to get around the BIOS password protection?
  21. What do the BIOS POST and beep codes mean ?
  22. How to solve the AMI BIOS Beep codes ?
  23. How to insert NCR SCSI BIOS v3.07 or 4.03 into your MRBIOS ?
  24. What about BIOS support for the year 2000 (Y2K BIOS support) ?
  25. Where can I download the Award and AMI Flashers ?
  26. How to flash an Intel AMI BIOS on an Intel OEM board ? (e.g. when you have BIOS 1.00.xx.CB0H and want to update to a 1.00.xx.CB0 BIOS)
  27. How to flash an Intel Phoenix BIOS on an Intel OEM board ?
  28. How can you change the EPA logo that is displayed at boot-up on Award BIOS based motherboards ?
  29. How do you get rid of IRQ Routing Table errors in Windows 95 98 ME?
  30. My motherboard (BIOS) is dead, and I can't get my floppy drive to work to do a boot-block flash.
  31. Why is there no option to enable USB in my BIOS setup?
  32. Why won't my Intel VX chipset based motherboard recognize xxMB DIMMS/SIMMS?
  33. My hard drive has a size of xxGB. Why is only xxGB reported?
  34. What is the BIOS doing during the bootup sequence?
  35. How do I identify a motherboard with a Phoenix BIOS?
  36. I flashed my VIA chipset based motherboard with the correct BIOS upgrade and it died. Why ?