BIOS update

[Travis King]

Does anybody know how to do a BIOS update with an Asus
A7V333 motherboard? I want to update from revision 1005
to 1017. Their book just confuses me. I feel the updat
is necessary because I am planning on replacing my
processor with an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ barton core CPU
with a 333MHz FSB.

 

[Doug Knox MS-MVP]

You can do it with a DOS boot disk, or most Asus Motherboards come with Asus
Update, which will update the BIOS from within Windows.

http://www.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=Tools&Type=Latest

I've had mixed results with updating the BIOS from the web, so usually just
download the latest BIOS and use the local copy feature.

 

[dogDoc]

Travis -
Doug's advice is good - but I'd like to add one thing.
Don't try to update your BIOS simply because you 'feel'
that it would be a good thing. Unless you are totally
certain about every step - you can really mess things up
royally. There's the old saying about "If it ain't
broke ... etc". You might hold on and see if it's really
necessary before you try something which you could regret
later.
Doc -----------------------------------------------------

 

[Jim Macklin]

Make sure you have a UPS connected when you do a BIOS update
because any power surge or failure will likely destroy your
BIOS and therefore the motherboard.


Travis -
Doug's advice is good - but I'd like to add one thing.
Don't try to update your BIOS simply because you 'feel'
that it would be a good thing. Unless you are totally
certain about every step - you can really mess things up
royally. There's the old saying about "If it ain't
broke ... etc". You might hold on and see if it's really
necessary before you try something which you could regret
later.
Doc -----------------------------------------------------

 

[Mr Nobody]

Go to their web site, the instructions there are pretty good, I did mine
several times. Caution only do the upgrade using the floppy drive method.
One other thing the CPU you want to install may not work on that motherboard
unless you have the latest version of the motherboard. I seem to remember
it is version X only. However you can install the 266 FSB version of the
2600 plus in all versions as I recall.

One other thing--this is the wrong Newsgroup for this question.

Look here for info
http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?langs=09&m=A7V333
Mr Nobody

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Call Asus if you are not comfortable with doing this yourself.