BIOS Advice Needed...
- Thread starter Aunty Em
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Justintime
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Unless you're gettin specific problems, no.
Aunty Em
Well-Known Member
I was mainly thinking this
I don't have any specific drivers loaded for the board except the USB 2.0 because when I loaded the 4 in drivers for PCI, agp etc my radeon 7500 wouldn't work. I was wondering if it was related to that? Also I'm now running 2000 in relation to the cpu fan failure problem.
... because of the problems I was having with the drivers and the video card initially.
I don't have any specific drivers loaded for the board except the USB 2.0 because when I loaded the 4 in drivers for PCI, agp etc my radeon 7500 wouldn't work. I was wondering if it was related to that? Also I'm now running 2000 in relation to the cpu fan failure problem.
greenfreak
New Member
I didn't upgrade my BIOS when I first configured my pc either, thought I didn't need it. I have a similar board as yours Auntie, a KT7A-RAID.
Over a year later, my pc started freezing on me for no earthly reason. After a real long time trying to figure out what the problem was, it turned out to be fixed with a BIOS update. Apparently, there was some kind of incompatibility between my Maxtor ATA100 drives and the mobo. I only found this out from the Maxtor website when looking for jumper settings.
The fact that it took over a year to surface baffles me but nonetheless, I downloaded every driver/update imaginable including those HPT files and now it's running like a champ.
Because I'm really bad about backing up my data, it took me quite a while to back everything up before it froze on me (had to do it to ZIP). If you wait till you do have a problem to update the BIOS, just make sure you have backups available in case there's a problem.
Over a year later, my pc started freezing on me for no earthly reason. After a real long time trying to figure out what the problem was, it turned out to be fixed with a BIOS update. Apparently, there was some kind of incompatibility between my Maxtor ATA100 drives and the mobo. I only found this out from the Maxtor website when looking for jumper settings.
The fact that it took over a year to surface baffles me but nonetheless, I downloaded every driver/update imaginable including those HPT files and now it's running like a champ.
Because I'm really bad about backing up my data, it took me quite a while to back everything up before it froze on me (had to do it to ZIP). If you wait till you do have a problem to update the BIOS, just make sure you have backups available in case there's a problem.
Very true about the backups.
The general guideline is not to fix it til it's broke, but I usually go ahead and get the bios updates. Just remember, they can be risky too. I talked my brother into doing one only to have his super floppy drive not be supported by the new update.
The general guideline is not to fix it til it's broke, but I usually go ahead and get the bios updates. Just remember, they can be risky too. I talked my brother into doing one only to have his super floppy drive not be supported by the new update.