BIOS Updates forum

Denniss, Clearing the CMOS, and then loading "optimized defaults" did the trick. Despite using the retail-version BIOS on an OEM board, everything seems to be working normally, including warm restart. The computer has not yet frozen up, so I might have fixed that problem too. Many thatnks for your h...

Thanks for your help, Denniss. The computer was from Tiny. I doubt I'll be able to find exactly the right BIOS update, as the company no longer exists. However, if the retail BIOS fixes the instability, then failure to restart willl be a small price to pay. I'll try manually clearing the CMOS, as yo...

Motherboard: MSI MS-6524G BIOS Version: W6524SMS V1.7 042303 This is my first post here . I'm new to all this BIOS stuff, and only tried updating the BIOS in a last-ditch attempt to cure frequent freeze-ups... I updated the BIOS to the above version (previously W6524o1 v1.09 030102). Now, the comput...