BIOS Updates forum

For reducing Win98 boot time, use 98Lite. In the BIOS setup, several options can be changed to reduce boot time, but I suppose you already did that (like disabling floppy seek at boot, disabling RAM check, instead of using autodetect for HDs use manual setting of parameters, disable SMART for HDs, n...

Some of the newest mobos are using this new kind of flash chips, that are incompatible with older, "parallel" chips. I have two friends that screwed their BIOSes that were inside LPC/FWH chips, but I couldn´t help them ´cause I don´t have a suitable mother for hotflashing. I want to build a hardware...

On VERY old mobos, the BIOS was in a ROM chip.
I´ve several of this on my collection.