Is it safe (generally) to use beta bios?

Then you will be part of the beta test, saying that a guy said the beta bios he used on his motherboard was better than the non beta, its all hit and miss at the end.
 
The wifes pc is running a beta bios and she has had zero problems with it. I have run beta bios from many manufacturers over the years and had no problems with them.
 
Beta bioses if released publicly are safe to use but rather aimed at enthusiasts who tend to tweak their systems more thus in inexperienced hands beta bioses may lead to unstable platform behaviour which cannot be later blamed on publisher but user.
 
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mickyflinn said:
Apparently that has been changed a couple of days ago due to the outrage by customers and reviewer.
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I'm glad it has, especially when they don't have a none beta bios to fix the problem.

I have just manually lowered my SOC voltage to 1.22 and till a none beta bios is out. I was all set to buy a Asus board for my son's build later in the year, but looking at MSI now.
 
w00dy85 said:
I'm glad it has, especially when they don't have a none beta bios to fix the problem.

I have just manually lowered my SOC voltage to 1.22 and till a none beta bios is out. I was all set to buy a Asus board for my son's build later in the year, but looking at MSI now.
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I would take MSI over Asus, apparently there customer service is shocking also .
 
mickyflinn said:
Apparently that has been changed a couple of days ago due to the outrage by customers and reviewer.
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Whether Asus will actually honour it, beyond just a cosmetic change to the description to make the problem go away, and/or whether those handling their RMAs have been looped in on it is another matter - their previous history on this kind of stuff doesn't inspire me.

In general publicly released beta BIOS aren't too much of a problem but there have been the odd times where there have been problems sometimes serious ones. On my X79 motherboard they never bothered to release a final version of the last BIOS update which is required for proper support for E5 Xeon processors but has a cold boot bug :(
 
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mickyflinn said:
I would take MSI over Asus, apparently there customer service is shocking also .
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Well I have already been put off Gigabyte as I had a faulty x670 motherboard, before my current Asus board.

I guess I could always go Asrock, though I still see them as budget boards. Not sure if that is still true?
 
w00dy85 said:
Well I have already been put off Gigabyte as I had a faulty x670 motherboard, before my current Asus board.

I guess I could always go Asrock, though I still see them as budget boards. Not sure if that is still true?
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I've had a couple of Asrock motherboards and they been solid but they do have that stigma I dont think there ever loose until you try.

MSI would be my first choice
 
I know its old, but I used about 20 beta BIOS on my MSI Z77 MPower motherboard, never had any issues whatsoever.
 
like some other big companies Asus policies came to point of being against common customer's laws. Happy those few who RMA'd their motherboards before Asus removed warranty clause, and been officially refused from replacement. Standing now up against Asus may bring some benefits for them, who knows
 
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