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      26th Dec 2009
How can i safely update my motherboards BIOS without having problems,its and A7V8X-X Asus???
 
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      26th Dec 2009
Hi

Please could you give us a bit more info as to why you want to update the BIOS are you having any problems at all? If not then I wouldn't bother updating it.

Could you also let us know the specs of this pc.

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Please could you give us a bit more info as to why you want to update the BIOS are you having any problems at all? If not then I wouldn't bother updating it.

Could you also let us know the specs of this pc.

Thanks
i have the ASUS motherboard,
2GB RAM,PC3200
GEforce FX 5600 256MB card
AMD Athlon XP 2800+MHz Socket A
runnining on XP Pro

well I am having random BSOD and think that my BIOS is outdated as I bought this pc in 2004
 
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      26th Dec 2009
I would look for other solutions to your BSOD, like posting them here for us to look at, the whole error message would be helpful.

I agree with wizkid, I see no reason to update the BIOS unless, it "fixes" a know problem, check what is know first.



 
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thank you muckshifter how would i post my BSOD error,i will explain some of the problems, apart from random BSOD,sometimes it even starts with a check disk before it loads windows,and everytime i leave it on idle at nite when i wake up I find it on BSOD,and the errors are different,like irq_not_less_or_equal,

How can i post the reports??
 
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      27th Dec 2009
paper & pencil still work ... write it down and copy it here.

Mr Google is pretty good sometimes ... http://support.microsoft.com/default...;en-us;Q314063

http://aumha.org/a/stop.htm



 
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      28th Dec 2009
here are the errors,
thank you for helping me aroound mate
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File Type: txt errors.txt (197.4 KB, 734 views)
 
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      28th Dec 2009
sorry, but even Microsoft engineers are crap at reading dmp files ...

All we need is what is written on the actual BSOD, hence the paper & pencil ...

have a read at ...

http://articles.techrepublic.com.com...1-6053684.html

... make sure Auto-Reboot is turned off so you can read, and see the blue screen error.

Go to Start / Control Panel / System
Go to Advanced
Under the Startup and Recovery section, click Settings
Under System Failure un-check "Automatically restart"


 
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      29th Dec 2009
Here is the BSOD error hope its of some help

problem file win32k.sys

page_file_in_non_paged_area

STOP. 0x00000050 (0xE14 B601C, 0x00000000, 0x13f8374D3, 0x000000010 )

win32k.sys address BF8374D3

base at BF800000

datestamp 4a8564c7

Hi mate,hope this is ok to help me a bit,this is one of the errors

thanks a lot beforehand bro
 
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