bios upgrade

[smtkr]

My mother board is the VIA Apollo Pro 133a with a Winbond '977 super i/o chipset. Does anyone know where I can go for a bios upgrade or if there is one at all?

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I'm consistantly inconsistant!

[Cougar]

You need to know the brand and model of your motherboard, not what chipset it has. Then you can get BIOS upgrades from the motherboard manufacturer website.

If there's no problem with your motherboard as it is, don't upgrade the BIOS. It won't help performance at all, only add support for new CPUs etc.

[edhensley]

Disagree with you Cougar. Bios upgrades do more than provide support to newer chips. The bios does more than that, patches problem with newer os, bigger HDs, error in the current bios, and so on.

Now for smtkr:
Once you determine the MB maker go to their web and see what the newest bios is and then compare it too the one in the board. If its the same dont do a thing. If there is a newer one, then following the instrustions that they give you to the letter.

You'll more than likely need a flash utility and the bios. Dont, I repeat don't deviate from how they tell you to flash the bios.

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If Compaq can build a computer then anyone can

[Old Fogy]

Don’t flash your BIOS unless you have a reason to.
Save your old BIOS before flashing. Your flashing utility should give you the option of doing this.