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Updating your Intel SSD firmware for better performance
We’ve just posted our first Wim’s BIOS video on YouTube! In the video we show step-by-step how to update the firmware of your Intel SSD (Solid State Drive)The newest release adds some performance improvements in the NCQ area, so it’s a good idea to update to squeeze the best performance out of your drive! The…
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Wimsbios.com now on VPS and CDN hosting
Wimsbios.com is now hosted on its own cloud infrastructure (VPS). Together with CDN technology for the static parts of the site, the performance has been improved greatly! Let us know how fast the site loads at your end!
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AMD 790FX chipset id
After the Intel X38 chipset we’ve now added the first motherboard identification strings for the AMD 790FX chipset. (which supports AMD Phenom AM2 processors) The chipset can be identified by the 6A66A Award chipset code as shown below: 11/29/2007-RD790-SB600-6A66AG01C-00 This code is used for the Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 (PCB: 1.0) motherboard. Check our AMD 790FX chipset…
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Intel X38 chipset BIOS IDs
We’ve added the first BIOS IDs for the newest Intel X38 chipset on our Award BIOS ID’s page The chipset can be identified by the 6A79O Award chipset code as shown below: 10/30/2007-X38-ICH9-6A79OG0QC-00 This code is used for the Gigabyte X38-DQ6 motherboard. Check our Intel X38 chipset page for more BIOS IDs.
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Asrock bios upgrades added
We’ve added a new page about Asrock BIOS upgrades on Wim’s BIOS. You can find a list of AMI motherboard identification strings to identify your Asrock motherboard as well as links to the official site. Check out our Asrock BIOS upgrades page! PS: More motherboard identification strings will be added in the near future!
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Compaq/HP A8AE-LE BIOS v3.14
People using the Compaq/HP A8AE-LE motherboard may have noticed very slow performance with BIOS v3.13 (the latest version available on the HP site) due to the system taking 60% to 100% of CPU cycles even at idle time. BIOS v3.14 fixes this problem, but is unfortunately not yet available. Edwin, one of the moderators at…
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Vote Top5 of new features on Wim’s BIOS site!
Wim’s BIOS Page is now online for more then 11 years, but it is still alive and kicking in 2007
While we’re now mainly focussing on adding AMI and Award BIOS Identification strings we have a lot of future ideas for the site. Please let us know what you think is still missing on… -
List of AMD 690G/V chipset motherboards
We’ve added the first BIOS IDs for the newest AMD 690G chipset on our Award BIOS ID’s page The chipset can be identified by the 6A669 Award chipset code as shown below: 03/06/2007-RS690-SB600-6A669J19C-00 This code is used for the Jetway M2A692-GHG / M2A692-GDG / M2A692-VP motherboard. We’ll be updating our AMD 690G/V page with new…
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How to replace integrated chipsets’ video bios with a newer one?
As you may know, PCI/AGP and PCI-Express video cards use their own BIOS apart from the mainboard’s BIOS to enable their capabilities. A lesser known fact is that motherboards which use integrated VGA chipsets also have a video BIOS, but here it is stored inside the main motherboards BIOS as a module. As on every…