Bios update

iviv · 13 Oct 2008 at 16:58

ATI are telling me to update my BIOS to try and stop the bluescreens from my 4850. So, I downloaded the most recent one from the website, stuck it onto a USB flash drive and rebooted into the bios where they have their ez flash utility thing, where it told me it would not work with NTFS.
I think I was being fairly silly here, but I quickly gave up since my hard drives are all NTFS, though I'm fairly sure they mean that the flash drive can't be formatted in NTFS.

Can someone just confirm that I'm being a numpty before I do this. Thanks ^^

Cob · 13 Oct 2008 at 17:03

The memory stick has to be FAT32. That's a pretty normal request for BIOS flashing.

iviv · 13 Oct 2008 at 17:08

Hmm, it was in FAT. Formatted, just in case.

Is it just a matter of sticking the .ROM file onto the flash and selecting the option in the BIOS?
Asus P5B by the way, as I didn't mention it.

Sorry for all the questions, but its one of those things I don't want to take any chances on :3

Cob · 13 Oct 2008 at 17:19

Yeah it should be as simple as that.

Tho with their P5Q range I found that I had to switch the computer off and back on again before the BIOS would recognise the USB stick.

iviv · 13 Oct 2008 at 17:53

Thanks, it seems to have gone through fine.
Though I rather stupidly forgot that it wouldn't retain my overclock. A new BIOs update won't make it any worse at OCing, will it?

Cob · 13 Oct 2008 at 18:01

Hard to tell. Sometimes they're better, sometimes the same, sometimes worse.

Snograt · 13 Oct 2008 at 18:49

It's standard practice to reset BIOS to default settings after flashing anyway.

(Er, right?)

iviv · 13 Oct 2008 at 19:18

It reset itself automatically without asking me. Though that makes sense, seeing as everything you had saved was on the old bios, which you just deleted.

Snograt · 13 Oct 2008 at 19:45

I'll be jumped on by many experts if I'm wrong, but isn't this confusion between BIOS and CMOS? The BIOS is what you changed, the CMOS holds the settings for the BIOS. I know nVidia recommend resetting to default after flashing, indicating that it isn't automatic on some boards.

dipper17 · 18 Oct 2008 at 08:27

Mine have allways reset to factory defaults after updating the Bios, so I think that is usual. You can then start again with a fresh Bios. Some of the update may have altered or give options that were not available before

Clive37 · 18 Oct 2008 at 17:07

iviv said:
It reset itself automatically without asking me. Though that makes sense, seeing as everything you had saved was on the old bios, which you just deleted.

All my overclocking setting are still there after i update my bios

Clive37 · 18 Oct 2008 at 17:12

iviv said:
Hmm, it was in FAT. Formatted, just in case.

Is it just a matter of sticking the .ROM file onto the flash and selecting the option in the BIOS?
Asus P5B by the way, as I didn't mention it.

Sorry for all the questions, but its one of those things I don't want to take any chances on :3

Are you trying to update your motherboard bios
or your graphic card bios?