can this be done and any tips for doing it.

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hi all. i have recently got hold of a packard bell pc not the best i know but it was cheap.it has a packard bell vagas 2 motherboard which is in fact an asus p5ne sli and a q6600 cpu. the thing is the bios is a packard bell one with very limmited options. nothing for the cpu or ram.does anybody know if i could flash it with an asus bios and is there any tips for doing so.
 
I remember someone else asking the same question a few months ago, and IIRC we could see no reason why it wouldn't work. I don't think they went through with it tho.

But, and it's a pretty big but, you will probably lose your Windows install as it will probably be hard-locked to the PB version of the BIOS.
 
i have already replaced the pb vista with a retail copy i have and have had no problems.so does this mean i will have problems after a bios change.
 
If you're running a retail version of Vista then you shouldn't have the Windows problem as it won't be locked to the PB motherboard in the same way that a PB version of Vista would be.

You *may* have to activate it again, but at the very very worst you'll just have to explain that you've updated your BIOS.
 
With the Asus board you can pop it on a pen drive and run EZ flash from BIOS. You may need to make a boot floppy or pendrive and pop the file and utility on there.
 
In theory it should be straight forward. But that's assuming that PB haven't somehow disabled flashing to a non-PB based BIOS. But personally I've flashed old MSI based PB boards to their standard BIOS without any issues years ago.

I'm afraid you will be something of a guinea pig with the newer board.
 
thanks for your help i shall give it a go and report back.if it all goes wrong there are some nice new motherboards about now.now its time to start spreading the dodgy fuse myth to the missus
 
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