Upgrade the PC BIOS firmware
It is time to check the BIOS version of my PC. I do regular maintenance for a few months. The upgrade procedure is the same as before. The motherboard is Asus PRIME B450M-A II. The version of BIOS on the...
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Upgrade the BIOS on PRIME B450M-A II
It is time to upgrade my desktop PC motherboard. it is Asus PRIME B450M-A II. The bios running on the board is v 3604, which I upgraded in March 2022. How to upgrade the ASUS motherboard BIOS? 1. Download the...
Upgrade BIOS and change the settings
[This post discusses the way to upgrade the BIOS on the Gigabyte B450M DS3H motherboard. Change the BIOS settings to enable TPM2.0 and try to make Windows 11 support it.] The computer I use is a desktop PC. Gigabyte B450M...
Change Logs of the BIOS of B450M DS3H
I mentioned the upgrade of the motherboard BIOS, B450M DS3H rev1.0. But I forgot to describe the difference and changes. 1) There is no need to go into the BIOS settings to do anything. I just restart the computer to...
Upgrade B450M DS3H BIOS to latest F50
It is my desktop PC‘s motherboard. Gigabyte B450M DS3H. This post focus on its BIOS. The original BIOS version shipped with the MB is F4. From my old post, you can see it. Before I upgrade it today, it...
Error code 0x490 after updating BIOS
My desktop motherboard has a new BIOS released. Current one is E7786AMS v1.6; the new one is v1.7, which fixed some USB problem. So as my habit, I like to keep things updated. I downloaded the BIOS zip file from...
Some tips for Upgrade Windows 7 on Brand name PC
Say, there is a ASUS Laptop, which is shipped with Windows Vista. Now the user want to change it to Windows 7. Here is the tips to upgrade it. 1) Backup up the user files to a safe place. Maybe...
Make a bootable USB disk to flash MB BIOS
Sometimes I need to flash the mother-board BIOS from DOS. Actually now I have not tools can boot the PC to DOS. There is no floppy disk driver on it. I can only make a DOS bootable USB disk to...
What is UEFI?
What is UEFI, I mentioned it at What is GPT, but not clear. Here I would like to give more details about it. The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface, UEFI, is a new firmware interface specification that is designed to replace...
What is GPT
GPT stands for GUID Partition Table. The widespread MBR partitioning scheme, dating from the early 1980s, imposed limitations which affect the use of modern hardware. Intel therefore developed a new partition-table format in the late 1990s as part of what...
Flash Bios without command
Acer Aspire One A110 has new bios released. I want to update it. 1) Download bios package from the official site. Link 2) I use the windows flash tool to update it. 3) Restart the netbook. It is failed to...
DECIPHER BIOS BEEP CODES
BEEP PATTERN CAUSE AND SOLUTION AWARD BIOS 1 long beep A memory problem: remove and reseat memory. 1 long, 2 short or 1 long, 3 short Video card problem or problem with its memory.Replace the graphics card or its memory....