Bios update

Clarifications

By and large, unless your Boot screen TELLS you that a BIOS upgrade is required or you are suffering severe system difficulty BEFORE your OS loads, updating the BIOS is a task you should avoid at all costs.

Particularly in a laptop, the CMOS chip is likely to be soldered directly onto the motherboard, thereby renedering your laptop useless if the BIOS update fails because you can't replace the chip.

Try searching Gateway M320. First result I got was the support page for said system. Drivers link is easily visible on the page.

But no, there is no BIOS update.

You could check your other drivers, though.

That makes you think you need to change the BIOS here?

The only reason to change the BIOS Firmware Version is because of Hardware Issues so things like newly released CPU's IDE HDD and so on will be affected.

But the basic operation of a Prebuilt System will have no effect by a successful BIOS Flash and the great possibility of destroying the M'Board with a Unsuccessful BIOS FLASH.

As this is a NB the BIOS Chip is soldered to the M'Board and is not easily replaced if you screw up with the Flash.

Anyway in answer to your Question the Hardware Maker is the place to go and as Gateway [b]Does Not[/b] list any BIOS Upgrades for this system there are none available for it currently. Look here for a complete list of Drivers Etc for the M320.

http://support.gateway.com/support/drivers/search.asp?param=Gateway+M320&st=kw

However if you want to pursues this to it's logical end you can either make a New BIOS for your system, go to the M'Boards Makers Web Site and see if they have any New BIOS versions available or commission a Custom BIOS from a place like Biosman

http://www.biosman.com/custom.htm

Bios Central

http://bioscentral.com/misc/biosservices.htm

Col