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ok.. I know you guys get this question a lot, and after looking around and seeing that the unexperienced have this similar question i hope i dont upset anyone. so here goes...
I have an Asus A7V266-C motherboard running on a version 1010 driver. Now seems that according to the handy dandy Asus Updater a version 1013 is available for my bios (incidentally im having problems with the Asus Updater... is it just me?). Sure enough when i checked on the Asus webpage i found that there are 1010 1011 1012 and 1013 drivers available.
My question is... do i want to upgrade the bios? I know the saying... if it works dont fix it, but i cant help but think im missing out on some cool unknown (to me) potential of having all the updated drivers on my system.
My follow-up question is... how hard is it to do this bios updating shtuff? I know it involves downloading the drivers to a floppy disk and rebooting with that and so on and so forth, but seems some where down the line i got this utility called WinFlash... could that make it some what easier to do all this?
As you can tell im fairly ignorant about all of this, but im trying to learn and i figure the best way to learn is to do it. If i seem too ignorant to help then let me know and i wont even attempt to ruin my computer.
1 last thing before i go... i downloaded SiSoftware Sandra and on the list of tips they offer when running the Performance Wizard is:
"The BIOS can be shadowed. Shadowing is a technique of copying the BIOS program from slow EPROM or EEPROM to RAM. This may yield some increase in performance.
Fix: Go to BIOS set-up and make sure that System BIOS is both shadowed and cached."
Thing is try as i might i cant seem to find a place that says anything about "shadowing" in the Bios. Where do i need to look to see if i have it enabled?
Well even if you folks cant or are unwilling to help me out, i just wanted to let ya'll know what a blessing this website and especially the Forum has been to me.
Thanks
Drift
I have an Asus A7V266-C motherboard running on a version 1010 driver. Now seems that according to the handy dandy Asus Updater a version 1013 is available for my bios (incidentally im having problems with the Asus Updater... is it just me?). Sure enough when i checked on the Asus webpage i found that there are 1010 1011 1012 and 1013 drivers available.
My question is... do i want to upgrade the bios? I know the saying... if it works dont fix it, but i cant help but think im missing out on some cool unknown (to me) potential of having all the updated drivers on my system.
My follow-up question is... how hard is it to do this bios updating shtuff? I know it involves downloading the drivers to a floppy disk and rebooting with that and so on and so forth, but seems some where down the line i got this utility called WinFlash... could that make it some what easier to do all this?
As you can tell im fairly ignorant about all of this, but im trying to learn and i figure the best way to learn is to do it. If i seem too ignorant to help then let me know and i wont even attempt to ruin my computer.
1 last thing before i go... i downloaded SiSoftware Sandra and on the list of tips they offer when running the Performance Wizard is:
"The BIOS can be shadowed. Shadowing is a technique of copying the BIOS program from slow EPROM or EEPROM to RAM. This may yield some increase in performance.
Fix: Go to BIOS set-up and make sure that System BIOS is both shadowed and cached."
Thing is try as i might i cant seem to find a place that says anything about "shadowing" in the Bios. Where do i need to look to see if i have it enabled?
Well even if you folks cant or are unwilling to help me out, i just wanted to let ya'll know what a blessing this website and especially the Forum has been to me.
Thanks
Drift
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