BIOS upgrade

[Lindsay]

Excuse me if this is a little off topic.

I recently upgraded my BIOS to the latest version. The manufacturer of my pc
do an upgrade via hard drive 'cos I haven't got a floppy drive. Thing is,
I'm having problems a want to go back to an earlier version. I have the
version but when I try to downgrade it won't let me saying a newer version
is already on my pc. How can I go backwards?

 

[wojo]

Once flashed you cannot flash to an earlier version. you need to contact the
manufacturer about flash BIOS problems or try to reflash.

 

[Malke]

Excuse me if this is a little off topic.

I recently upgraded my BIOS to the latest version. The manufacturer of
my pc do an upgrade via hard drive 'cos I haven't got a floppy drive.
Thing is, I'm having problems a want to go back to an earlier version.
I have the version but when I try to downgrade it won't let me saying
a newer version is already on my pc. How can I go backwards?

The very best place for you to get this information is on the
motherboard mftr.'s website. Look for their tech support knowledge
base.

Malke

 

[Plato]

Once flashed you cannot flash to an earlier version. you need to contact the
manufacturer about flash BIOS problems or try to reflash.

Sure you can. Folks do it all the time. That's why most flash programs
offer saving your old bios in file so you can go back if the new one is
not to your liking.

 

[wojo]

Really?
I've never actually tried it, my flashes haven't ever been a problem, but
I've heard of people having problems and getting a message saying the flash
is older than the firmware already in place and it won't let them do it. I
guess in the future I won't assume.

 

[Plato]

I've never actually tried it, my flashes haven't ever been a problem, but
I've heard of people having problems and getting a message saying the flash
is older than the firmware already in place and it won't let them do it. I
guess in the future I won't assume.

The main point is that you flash as a "last resort". However, that
advice is also
getting worn out as flash programs as you [reading between the lines]
noted _are_ way more reliable these days then they used to be.

In other words, in the years past I'd always choose a disk manager over
of chance of flashing to get a PC to see a larger hard drive then the
bios allows, but these days you have to look at each case individually.
If the client has a good quality board then
its most likely the board maker has quality flashes. So yeah, its less
risk then it used to be.

 

[wojo]

I've never actually tried it, my flashes haven't ever been a problem, but
I've heard of people having problems and getting a message saying the
flash
is older than the firmware already in place and it won't let them do it.
I
guess in the future I won't assume.

The main point is that you flash as a "last resort". However, that
advice is also
getting worn out as flash programs as you [reading between the lines]
noted _are_ way more reliable these days then they used to be.

In other words, in the years past I'd always choose a disk manager over
of chance of flashing to get a PC to see a larger hard drive then the
bios allows, but these days you have to look at each case individually.
If the client has a good quality board then
its most likely the board maker has quality flashes. So yeah, its less
risk then it used to be.

Oh no doubt about it FLASH was a bad word not too many years ago. Result was
bad more often than good. Needed to improve simply because firmware just
makes for easier upgrading if, as you said, it's a quality manufacturer with
quality equipment.