TRUE or FALSE...You may wish to flash your motherboard BIOS: a.to keep your motherbord functioning.?

b. to increse your momory capacity.


c. so that you can install the latest CPU designed for your motherboard's socket.


d. to iron out any bugs that you may have come across.

TRUE or FALSE...You may wish to flash your motherboard BIOS: a.to keep your motherbord functioning.?
A B C would be FALSE....





a. Is not a logical question. Mobo's can still function even if it has an outdated BIOS..





b. memory is memory, mobo memory slots tell you how much more memory it can take





c. CPU's are desinged to run at certain Bus speeds. If your CPU fits the socket, it'll run of course because the board was desinged to have that kind of CPU be installed not the BIOS.





d. In a sense is TRUE.. A device can't be detected or runs weird if your BIOS doesn't support that device. That's the reason why you FLASH BIOS...


"Bug" is not a word fitted to describe an error in devices.ROM programs cannot be bugged but can have errors.
Reply:Your motherboard will continue to function no matter what (under normal operating conditions, of course)





You cannot increase the memory capacity by flashing the BIOS with the factory release or an updated flash. If your board can only accept up to 2 GB of memory, than that's it. They are physical limitations, not programmed.





You cannot install the latest CPU either because if the pin size is incorrect and you don't have sufficient cooling or power and so many other things, it's not going to work. If your motherboard can only accept a 1.8 GHz P4 (at the max) and you have a 3.8 you would like to use, you better shop for a board to match. (lol) However, if you built a system where your AMD was listed as an unknown processor (but obviously still worked) but after flashing, it was suddenly listed as a 1500+ that would be about it, but it doesn't mean you can install faster processors. Unless the board is listed as a capable board that will one day accept a 4.2 GHz processor with a future flash to the BIOS to list those released processors, it doesn't do anything for the compatibility of processors. *grins*





BUT YES, an updated flash to your BIOS will certainly iron out any bugs within the system function of the board, provided all or most errors users may have been having were caught and corrected by the board programmers.





All-in-all, the BIOS is a controller of the north and south bridge of your motherboard. As with so many boards, there will be physical limitations that a BIOS flash will not be able to change. Processors designed for the chipset of your board will be recognized by the update and bugs will be worked out, but that's just about it.





This was a great question! *smiles*
Reply:A) Updated with current hardware
Reply:flashing your bios with the same bios will probably do nothing for you... but flashing to a newer version will probably increase the ABILITY to have higher memory capacity (it wont increase it without the memory being there). It will probably allow you to support newer CPUs, and newer realeses tend to iron out bugs :-P
Reply:the only true point is c. to install new processors" that is supported by the motherboard chipset"


and some times point d is also right


but this in the case that u get the motherboard with a very early bios ver. " u probably bought the motherboard as soon as the company began producing it"
Reply:Do your own homework. "C" is the only remotely correct answer.

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