Re: Good way to spook yourself
John Lewis
>Game PC is running perfectly. No problems at all. I'm even in the
>middle
>of one game and enjoying it. For some reason it occurred to me to
>upgrade
>my BIOS. Just a wandering though. So I went to the net to find the
>upgrade
>and got it down. Also got down @BIOS which gigabyte uses to do the
>upgrade from WinXP. Sat there like a dumbass and ran it. It worked, and
>on reboot I had upgraded from BIOS version F4 to F18 on my GA-K8NS
>mobo. Great. I tried to start the game I was playing, and it ran like a
>slide show with no color. I tried another game, Far Cry, and it would
>not
>start at all. HMMMMMM! Luckily, I had used @BIOS to save the old
>F4 version, so I retored F4. Rebooted, and games run fine. I suppose
>... just guessing ... that I should have upgraded the mobo drivers
>first ???
>I assume they would be backward compatible with F4, and forward
>compatible with F18 ???
Rule #1 with BIOS updates...... no obvious problems.. no updates !
Read all the BIOS update documentation.. if none of it applies to your
configuration, don't update.
Should you ever update your BIOS, you MUST clear the CMOS by
switching the CMOS jumper for 30 seconds AFTER REMOVING ALL
POWER FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
And an installation of the latest motherboard drivers is recommended
after a BIOS update. After a major jump in BIOS update, there is some
possibility that Windows will not boot at all, and you may have to
run a "Repair" or full install.
John Lewis
> One thing for sure. I'm really enjoying MOHPA.
>I'm in the swamp blasting Japs, and today I take special pleasure in
>it.
>
>johns
>
tla...@visto.com
run a hacked bios update on a PC with a raid controller - the bios
updates the controller and the motherboard and runs aggressive memory
timings!
I did not back up 400Gb of data and I run raid 0!
are you sweating now?
btw. don't do this
The Black Wibble
news:43dd3f49...@news.verizon.net...
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> Rule #1 with BIOS updates...... no obvious problems.. no updates !
> Read all the BIOS update documentation.. if none of it applies to your
>
> configuration, don't update.
>
> Should you ever update your BIOS, you MUST clear the CMOS by
> switching the CMOS jumper for 30 seconds AFTER REMOVING ALL
> POWER FROM YOUR COMPUTER.
That isn't necessary at all, and I've never known a motherboard manufacturer
to recommend such an approach if the machine is still bootable following the
upgrade. The normal procedure is to flash the BIOS, reboot and go into BIOS
setup, *load the default BIOS settings*, make any other changes to BIOS
settings if needed, and then save them.
Tony.
Mean_Chlorine
>btw. don't do this
That sounds as clever as hearing your 40 gigabyte harddisk named
'Storage', you know, the place where you put all the really important
stuff you don't need daily, like applications and documentation, go
"CLUNK! krchKRCHkrch tic-tic-tic krchKRCRCHkrch tic-tic-tic"... and
not immediately backing up everything still alive on the drive.
Sigh.
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