you can definately upgrade a bios. one that i have seen raves about
is mrbios (www.mrbios.com). their bios' are supposed to be awesome,
i want to upgrade my AMIBIOS xxxxCPOR bios, but, I havent saved the
money yet...
>From: "Kathleen Russell, fone.net tech support" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [newbie] OT--BIOS
>Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 15:19:26 -0600
>
>
>John wrote:
> > The BIOS is on the mother board itself and is coded on to the BIOS chip.
> > Without it Intel systems don't run since it loads the initial boot up
> > program from the MBR. Win/DOS also has a software "BIOS" as well, one
>of
>a
> > pair of hidden system files that DOS (and OS/2, Win9* and NT 3*)
>requires.
> > The NT versions used to be the MS OS/2 versions. I don't know whether
>that
> > has changed or not.
>
>Disclaimer: i was pretty much joking about the BIOS thing. I actually
>really like my BIOS (ambios). A friend of mine has a really cruddy BIOS,
>but the computer is a machine is a Hewlett Packard, so it is a cruddy
>system
>in general.
>
>I suppose a person would have to buy a whole new motherboard to get a
>different kind of BIOS. Can a person upgrade using the same motherboard,
>but maybe a different version or something?
>
>Thanks,
>Kathleen
>
>
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