Should I flash BIOS (8KHA+)

[DHarris75]

Hello,

First of all, I am so glad I found this forum. It is the most informative and helpful I have found. I just bought my 8KHA+ two days ago and I must say I am very happy.

Okay, my question: I am skeptical about flashing the bios. I flashed my ASUS A7M266 last week and all indications said it was successful. When it rebooted, nothing. No video and just a bunch of long beeps. Tech support was really unhelpful and I was treated like it was my problem...too bad, so sad. They said take it back to the dealer...but I bought in July and they won't do anything except charge me money to get the new bios. Anyway, I can order a new bios...but I was unsatisfied so I decided to just get a new mobo. (One day, I'll prob order a new bios for the ASUS.)

Anyway, after that, I am very skeptical. I used ASUS' program to flash and like I said, it appeared to be successful.

Should I flash my bios if I am having no probs with it? I am having a prob overclocking it past 143FSB...after that it won't load winXP....but I tend to think I have a sucky Athlon or cheap RAM. So bottom line: is it worth it to flash bios if nothing is wrong? Would I see a perf increase w/ the latest bios? And if I try and flash it and it is unsuccessful, will EPOX jump through hoops to get me back up and running...or would I be just SOL.

BTW: I have a AMD 1.4Ghz and 768mb RAM w/ an ASUS GeForce3 Deluxe.

Thanks for the inputs,
Darrell

[DHarris75]

Actually, scratch this post...I just updated BIOS and everything went fine.


But my fingers were crossed whole time.

Thanks,
Darrell

[BobyJo]

Well Epox Tech told me, "if it ain't broke don't go afixin it". I guess this is true, but as with most of us, we just have to try something as maybe this will be the one thing we have been looking for.

I have flashed the bios from the 11/2/01 all the way to 2116. Now I am back to the 11/2/01 bios, seems that none of them are any better than the one I had from the start.

Epox did furnish a new bios chip for me. They mailed it USPO, and I returned the old chip to them. The chip did fix all the problems I had with the mobo. I had no problems at all, but I had to try those new bios files just to see. I believe if I were one to go extreme fsb area the new bios files will be good. Since I am not inclined to go 160-200+ fsb I don't need anything other than what came with the chip.