Do BIOS Upgrades Really Matter?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday May 30, 2002 @06:25AM from the jumping-off-of-the-upgrade-merry-go-round dept.

inkfox asks: "It seems that whenever one buys a motherboard, there's already a BIOS upgrade available by the time you get your hands on it, usually dealing with some degenerate hardware behavior. Given that Linux and Windows 2000/XP replace all BIOS routines once loaded, do these upgrades really matter? If a system is successfully booting, is a BIOS upgrade more a risk than it is preventive maintenance?" This may be true, but what if you are running an OS that depends on the BIOS? If the BIOS is replaced by a specific OS, then BIOS upgrades can't really hurt anything, can they?

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Re:stupid bugs still happen by Trevelyan · 2002-05-30 09:19 · Score: 2, Funny

32bit UNIX systems will run out in 2038.
but by then we'll all be running 64bit right?
Re:stupid bugs still happen by rtaylor · 2002-05-30 09:47 · Score: 3, Funny

I fixed all my y2k issues sometime in the very early 1900's.

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