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Do BIOS Upgrades Really Matter?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. stupid bugs still happen by Pauly · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Am I the only person who had to upgrade bioses to fix y2k issues?
    Oh wait, that's all in the past.
    No one will ever make that kind of mistake again, right?