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Posted December 02, 2012
After bupdater and asus updater didn't work I installed AI Suite 2 and it's own asus updater. I'm assuming that since it's an official tool, it's guaranteed not to screw my mobod right? If it did I could send it back?

I was reading about it and it got me all scared, but I think it's just over caution.
Posted December 02, 2012
Mainboard BIOS updates are _never_ "guaranteed" to not screw something up. They usually work. However, there's always a chance that you're unlucky and that it just doesn't work for your board. Follow the instructions in your manual closely, and be prepared for the worst case.

Depending on your board, you may have a fallback BIOS that you can use if the flashing goes wrong. But it depends on the model, the cheap ones won't have such a feature.
Posted December 02, 2012
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Psyringe: Mainboard BIOS updates are _never_ "guaranteed" to not screw something up. They usually work. However, there's always a chance that you're unlucky and that it just doesn't work for your board. Follow the instructions in your manual closely, and be prepared for the worst case.

Depending on your board, you may have a fallback BIOS that you can use if the flashing goes wrong. But it depends on the model, the cheap ones won't have such a feature.
It's an ASUS P8B75-M LE

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8B75M_LE/

Is it considered cheap?
Post edited December 02, 2012 by JCD-Bionicman
Posted December 02, 2012
The safest way to flash / update BIOS is through the BIOS itself. Each ASUS motherboard has such tool in the BIOS. Just download the BIOS update and place it on your disk in a location that you can easily access, like C:\.
Posted December 02, 2012
Updating the BIOS is a very safe procedure. As you said, an official tool is largely guaranteed not to screw up your motherboard. Unlike what you may have heard, things can be recovered in the event of an error, so feel free to turn off your computer during a BIOS update or run the update during a thunder storm. Don't be afraid of making any mistakes. In the off-chance that you do something wrong, you'll be able to reverse what you've done, so don't sweat it.
Posted December 02, 2012
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Psyringe: Mainboard BIOS updates are _never_ "guaranteed" to not screw something up. They usually work. However, there's always a chance that you're unlucky and that it just doesn't work for your board. Follow the instructions in your manual closely, and be prepared for the worst case.

Depending on your board, you may have a fallback BIOS that you can use if the flashing goes wrong. But it depends on the model, the cheap ones won't have such a feature.
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JCD-Bionicman: It's an ASUS P8B75-M LE

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8B75M_LE/

Is it considered cheap?
Well, it's too cheap to have a fallback BIOS, but on the other hand it's modern enough to not really need one. You should be able to recover and try again even if something goes wrong during the update. Just take care to make a backup of the current BIOS in case something goes wrong with the new one.
Posted December 02, 2012
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JCD-Bionicman: It's an ASUS P8B75-M LE

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8B75M_LE/

Is it considered cheap?
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Psyringe: Well, it's too cheap to have a fallback BIOS, but on the other hand it's modern enough to not really need one. You should be able to recover and try again even if something goes wrong during the update. Just take care to make a backup of the current BIOS in case something goes wrong with the new one.
How do I create a backup? And how would I be able to recover and try again if there is no fallback unless you are talking about a backup?

Also, I don't think I have any discs or usb drives.
Posted December 02, 2012
Why are you flashing your BIOS? Is there some functionality or some problem that you don't have that flashing will provide/fix? If not, then don't flash it. There's no need to if there's no issue with your board in its current state.
Posted December 02, 2012
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JCD-Bionicman: It's an ASUS P8B75-M LE

http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8B75M_LE/

Is it considered cheap?
From your link, it says outright:
The ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 allows users to restore corrupted BIOS data from a USB flash disk containing the BIOS file. This utility saves users the cost and hassle of buying a replacement BIOS chip.
So if you get or have a flash drive and you save your BIOS onto it, then you can recover from something going wrong.
Posted December 02, 2012
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Coelocanth: Why are you flashing your BIOS? Is there some functionality or some problem that you don't have that flashing will provide/fix? If not, then don't flash it. There's no need to if there's no issue with your board in its current state.
My computer randomly freezes up during gameplay or video playback. It's not my video card since it's up to date and it hasn't been overheating, it has to be my mobod. Everything except the mobod is up to date.
Posted December 02, 2012
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Coelocanth: Why are you flashing your BIOS? Is there some functionality or some problem that you don't have that flashing will provide/fix? If not, then don't flash it. There's no need to if there's no issue with your board in its current state.
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JCD-Bionicman: My computer randomly freezes up during gameplay or video playback. It's not my video card since it's up to date and it hasn't been overheating, it has to be my mobod. Everything except the mobod is up to date.
I think that you'll find that despite everything (including your MOBO) being up to date, your computer might still freeze. Certain issues can be fairly hard to address.
Posted December 03, 2012
Have you checked your system's memory already with a memory tester? Random freezes and blue screens are often connected to faulty RAM. Sometimes it's even the graphics card's RAM but that's much harder to single out since there are next to no tools for checking this.
Posted December 03, 2012
Definitely do a memtest on your ram, BSOD in most cases is down to a stick of ram having a fault or not seated right.

I have an ASUS board in my machine and updated the bios with the utility that runs within Windows, I did have to manually grab the bios from the ASUS site and when I started the utility point towards it to update but it was easy enough to do.

Main thing with bios is making sure you get the right one, its easier to do than it used to be with the way boards are now numbered.

I was getting lockups and crashes on my machine until about 6 months ago, I had to keep opening my machine and reseating my graphics card. Turns out the graphics card was actually seated correctly and my issue was my modular power supply. I had used the additional modular leads to supply power to the VGA card, one of those leads is faulty and was causing the crashes. Disconnected them and used the leads that are wired in to the supply and haven't had an issue since.
Posted December 03, 2012
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Iain: Definitely do a memtest on your ram, BSOD in most cases is down to a stick of ram having a fault or not seated right.

I have an ASUS board in my machine and updated the bios with the utility that runs within Windows, I did have to manually grab the bios from the ASUS site and when I started the utility point towards it to update but it was easy enough to do.

Main thing with bios is making sure you get the right one, its easier to do than it used to be with the way boards are now numbered.

I was getting lockups and crashes on my machine until about 6 months ago, I had to keep opening my machine and reseating my graphics card. Turns out the graphics card was actually seated correctly and my issue was my modular power supply. I had used the additional modular leads to supply power to the VGA card, one of those leads is faulty and was causing the crashes. Disconnected them and used the leads that are wired in to the supply and haven't had an issue since.
Was your situation like mine? Did it only occur during video and gameplay? I don't know If I want to take the time to get inside my computer again, it was confusing enough putting it all together, ironically the power was the hardest part to figure out.

So If I do go inside my computer, what am I looking for?
Posted December 03, 2012
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Iain: Definitely do a memtest on your ram, BSOD in most cases is down to a stick of ram having a fault or not seated right.

I have an ASUS board in my machine and updated the bios with the utility that runs within Windows, I did have to manually grab the bios from the ASUS site and when I started the utility point towards it to update but it was easy enough to do.

Main thing with bios is making sure you get the right one, its easier to do than it used to be with the way boards are now numbered.

I was getting lockups and crashes on my machine until about 6 months ago, I had to keep opening my machine and reseating my graphics card. Turns out the graphics card was actually seated correctly and my issue was my modular power supply. I had used the additional modular leads to supply power to the VGA card, one of those leads is faulty and was causing the crashes. Disconnected them and used the leads that are wired in to the supply and haven't had an issue since.
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JCD-Bionicman: Was your situation like mine? Did it only occur during video and gameplay? I don't know If I want to take the time to get inside my computer again, it was confusing enough putting it all together, ironically the power was the hardest part to figure out.

So If I do go inside my computer, what am I looking for?
Yeah, it was only happening when I was gaming, more so with the newer games that required the full use of my GTX 570.

Look on your power supply, if it is modular it will have connectors on one side of it with no wires coming from them (Unless they are being used for additional system power requirements understandably), dead easy to see if you just take the side off.

There will also be a thick cluster of wires coming out of the power supply on another side.

If your setup is like this literally just take the modular leads out and connect your VGA card to the wires that come out of the cluster instead, takes a few minutes maximum.

Another thing you may want to look at is the edge of the case, something when fitting expansion cards the fitting is slightly off. So when you put the screw in the back plate it tries to pull the card out of the slot. I GENTLY pushed the edge of the case in over a few millimeters to stop it pulling on my VGA card.
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