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by khushdholoo

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I have PIII/550MHZ, 128MB RAM, WIN98SE, 20GB HDD. My motherboard is VIA ZX98-AT (BIOS B236910)The BIOS at the bottom while booting shows as: American Megatrends Inc, 61-0414-008031-00111111-071595-440BX-CRBX014-H (A.M. AMIBIOS (c) 1996 ver 1.07 (990805) chip 82443BX. I want to flash this BIOS (if recommended) but have been unable to find this BIOS number anywhere on the NET and foreign equivalents either. Please guide me as to where to find this particular BIOS flashing procedure. Many thanks.
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Khushroo Dholoo

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by gigelul

Hi
If you don't have a real problem you don't need to flash BIOS.
Generaly you must search for your MOTHERBOARD model not for BIOS model. If you find an update read carefuly what offer this and chose if you need or not this update. Where you will find the update also you will find the procedure about how to use it.
An update for BIOS work, booting from a diskette. You must make this diskette with downloaded update. Be carefully and make a backup for your BIOS.

by dmiles

To Flash the BIOS you need to get the version from the upper left corner of the startup screen,press the pause key

Check the manufacturers web site of BIOS

Other sites to check for BIOS updates
1)www.ami.com/support/download.cfm
2)www.windrivers.com
3)www.drivershq.com
This site also has a utility download that will identify the bios and manufacturer
4)www.badflash.com
5)www.motherboards.org
6)www.megatrends.com
7)http://www.bios-drivers.com/
8)www.ping-be/bios
9)http://pacosdrivers.com/bios.asp

by saihib

To actually flash the bios you'll need to create a bootable floppy, then download the new bios to it and download the AMI flash utility to the floppy also. Then boot from the floppy and run the AMI executable, follow the prompts and reboot when finished.

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