OT: System and Video BIOS Question

rdouglass · #1 August 14th, 2003, 08:36 PM

I use AdAware routinely to check for SpyWare. It's one of those 'niche' programs i can't seem to do without....

http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/

Narrew · #2 August 14th, 2003, 08:53 PM

As other's have said, don't flash your BIOS unless you are having hardware issues (such as the blue screen of death, or irratic lock ups). I have flashed about a dozen Boards and have had 1 go bad (where I couldn't recover from it) you might as well chuck the MB (I could have sent the BIOS chip to a company to try to fix it, but the cost was just under a new MB).

Thats just my 2 cents, but I think you would be better off not doing it.

Suicide Junkie · #3 August 14th, 2003, 09:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by rdouglass:
I use AdAware routinely to check for SpyWare. It's one of those 'niche' programs i can't seem to do without....

http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/

The guys here at the helpdesk suggest using Adaware in unison with Spybot.

Between the two of 'em you'll get more of the adware out.

rdouglass · #4 August 14th, 2003, 09:48 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:

quote:
Originally posted by rdouglass:
I use AdAware routinely to check for SpyWare. It's one of those 'niche' programs i can't seem to do without....

http://lavasoft.element5.com/software/adaware/

The guys here at the helpdesk suggest using Adaware in unison with Spybot.

Between the two of 'em you'll get more of the adware out.

Thanks, I'll take a look....

Chronon · #5 August 15th, 2003, 04:04 AM

Thanks for the advice everyone. I knew this was the right place to ask...

minipol · #6 August 16th, 2003, 01:44 AM

As some have said already, do not flash when not needed. I have once flashed using the flash program of my motherBoards manufacturer and it failed making my mobo unusable.
Later i learned that flashing is best done out of windows and even in dos mode.
Just now i received an old computer i'm turning into a linux server and it flashed ok but i had booted using a startup disk.
Sometimes, for older machines an updated bios can do import stuff: the old pc (333Mhz) can now use very big harddrives and faster processors than pre-flashing it's bios.

Suicide Junkie · #7 August 16th, 2003, 03:49 AM

My goodness... Flashing a BIOS and Windows go together like a snowball and Hell.