BIOS Updates forum

Thanks for responding Rascard but I eventually took my PC to our local repair engineer and he came to the conclusion the mobo had a fault in it. When I got it back, I heard something drop inside the case and when I opened it up, a small screw fell from behind the motherboard. When I booted up, the P...

Many thanks KachiWachi. I only wish I could do as you suggested but as you can see from my original post, my BIOS is not operating, so I am unable to get to the POSTscreen and can't get into the BIOS to 'Boot from CD ' Anyway it has occured to me that when I changed the BIOS battery there was a peri...

I have been having many crash problems with my PC (OS XP) over the past year and have reinstalled XP many times including hundreds of restarts and I am wondering if it possible to wear out or damage a BIOS as a result because my PC is now dead. However, before this happened I tried to do yet another...

Hi CP. I am relieved to say I have managed to get the PC going again without updating the BIOS. I dont really understand how it happened but I took a chance and tried getting into BIOS setup via Del and it worked. I set it to load from cd rom and carried out an XP repair which somehow seems to have ...

Many thanks for your reply CP. Please bear with me as I need a bit of time to take in the contents of the link you supplied but I will get back to you when I have done so, so please do not go away !

Hi everyone. My daughter has been having numerous problems with her PC on start up with mouse and screen crashes etc and we noticed the date kept reverting to 2002. Then the PC finally crashed and would not start, so we changed the battery and the PC immediately got going again. However, this time t...

Many thanks for your help.

Thanks AJZCHIPS. So just to clarify this, am I to assume that without that Utility I would not be able to update the BIOS at all or is that utility just a means of making an update possible. ? Any more advice would be appreciated.

Hi. I have a PcChips 810LR mobo with an American Megatrends Award Bios and the Mobo's support software CD includes a BIOS UPDATE UTILITY which allows me to update the BIOS file on the mainboard. Does this utility cum driver mean that I can install an updated bios from the PCChips website straight to...