It's good advice. Screwing up a BIOS update can make the computer unbootable.
But (and there's always a but, isn't there?) how do you know if it is broke? A buggy BIOS can cause practically any conceivable computer issues except pop-up storms. Any kind of performance issues, stability issue or compatibility issue could be caused by a faulty BIOS.
Practically every piece of data going through the system goes through the hands of the BIOS. There was the well know problem on the 680i motherboards when they came out that was corrupting data on SATA drives. There was a MSI motherboard where a bug in the BIOS was causing the southbridge to overheat. Lots of motherboard went haywire with the 7950GX2, not expecting to have to look for a graphics card behind a PCIe splitter.
So the question becomes: Sure, don't fix it unless it ain't broke, but how do you know it is broke?
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Rule out everything else, then check the documentation for the BIOS to see if it fixes that problem.
Then cross your fingers and hope! :)
- John
(aka usasma)
This is great info to know.
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