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I was wondering if it is possible at all to update the microcode of a Dell Precision 690. Most of the other manufactures have update the microcode in there boards to support the 54 series xeon CPU's dell has not

hi,

i made a bootable usb and when i go to the BIOS settings to boot from usb as the first boot this was the options :floppy, LS120, hard disk, CDROM, ZIP, USB-FDD, USB-ZIP, USB-CDROM, legacy lan.

i have phoenix award BIOS
my mother board is :P4M800-8237
so does it support boot from usb or not
i tried FDD but it doesn't worked

Im currently working on a project and need to be able to find the size of the BIOS.

I know that and easy way would be to cross ref it online and find the make/model etc etc but this is not what i need.

What i need is some sort of command possibly something like a WMIC command that displays the size of the chip.

The reason for this is that I will be looking ...

HI, help!
currently have motherboard biostar a880g+ with a amd phenom x4 core, running at 3.4ghz,
6meg ram, uprated fan, and now wish to improve the graphic card that is now a radeon 4750.
how high a spec of card can i go?
is a radeon 7850 too much?
help..

Just had spam to my 'old' wimbios email address (just changed it). That specific email address was created purely for this site and has never been given out anywhere other than to register on this forum.
I suggest you check your security as it's clearly not sufficient.

I have a software application running on a pc running windows. Is it possible to achieve following:

1) When I connect it to power socket, it boots up and take me to desktop( which is a usual behaviour I believe when any pc is connected to power outlet)
2) (Here is a tricky one), While doing my work and computer running, I remove power plug, computer shuts down, However, on plugging it back in, it ...

Hello,

In the Bios I can set the time (and date) manually
so that the Computer boots automatically at the desired time.

I am a Visual Basic Programmer. -Is it possibble to set the Boot-time
and Boot-date by a self written WinXP program?

My motherboard is an ASUS A7V-E with Award BIOS (WinXP).

Hi,

I have a Packard Dell desktop with Windows Vista and recently my graphics card burned out (to such an extent that I can’t use it again to disable). I took my PC to PC World and the assistant in the shop replaced my graphics card with a nvidia GeeForce 8400GS. He told me that when I got home I’d need to disable my old graphics card, but when I turn on my computer to ...

Hello, I have a HP pavilion a1210n (A8AE-LE AmberineM motherboard) that I have kept alive over the years with hardware upgrades. I have read where some bios revisions on certain motherboards resulted in large performance gains but I cannot find any revision notes on the A8AE-LE bios updates, I checked and I'm currently using bios revision 3.07 and I see they are up to 3.15 now.

My question is for anybody that can remember if ...

This is my current BIOS (http://www.box.com/s/enujrt37xjzyc9t8f9id (modded version A10)) installed in my Dell Dimension 4700 and what I'd like to do is change the BIOS version and date. I tried replacing the five "A10" (I left one A10 alone because it appears in older version that I looked at) and the date in the .hdr header file, fixed the CRC32 and tried flashing it but it won't do it ...