Q: What are the advantages of staying in power is always my drivers? I have the Promise ATA/100 card and the Maxtor as a card – but what is my advantage to update the drivers? Faster speed? Thruput?
How about the Plextor 12x burner? When I look at v1.09? Is that the last – what ist he benefit? Burn faster?
How on my ASUS MB? What do I get by updating the bios?
Or my 3dfx 3000 Grafx AGP card? What do I get by updating the drivers on this?
I am curious .
Re:Most updates I've seen aren't terribly useful… I had to reinstall Windows twice yesterday (revamping my system) cuz the "updated" drivers from the manufacture didn't work properly.. damn thing caused "Windows Protection Error".
Re:I have the ASUS P2B mobo. I have a P2/300, oc'ed to 466 mhz. Everything works fine in my system including the grafix card, the CDRW (plextor 12x), etc.
The only thing I have been keeping up to date with is my Rio Volt.. but that's for features. I just wondered why people did updates, such as the promise controller card and such..
Re:On my Plextor 12x, I'm just using whatever firmware that came with the unit.. no problems so far, so I wouldn't worry about updating it.
Which ASUS mobo do you have? I flashed mine (A7V) yesterday to the version 1007.. gave me some new features in BIOS.. but other than that, nothing major worth cheering about. Apparently it fixes a problem if you have a multimedia card in PCI slots 4/5…
Re:Go ahead and update the video card drivers – but keep the old ones around. Don't flash the BIOS unless you really really need it..
[Edit - Video card drivers are interesting to experiment with, because they can give you either better or worse frame rates.]
Re:im scared of bios updates!
Re:An unsuccessful bios flash and you are up the creek. These people that say to always get the lasted firmware are nuts.
Re:The best advice:
If it ain't broken, then don't fix it.
I still use the NV BIOS on my Abit BH6 because there's nothing wrong with it. It recognizes my entire 41GB HD, my processor is supported, and there's just nothing that I need to upgrade for. I use the nVidia 6.35 drivers because they work best on my GeForce2 MX. On the other hand, I flashed my DVD-ROM over the weekend to a new firmware. Why? Because I hate the idiotic region controls in DVDs, and the firmware I upgraded to is region-free.
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