Bios Upgrade

[moen]

Just upgraded Bios...long overdue and fixed several problems.

IF I now restore a Ghost image that was made before this Bios upgrade, Will it cause problems with the New Bios settings, or is it ok to do this??

Also, What are the latest GOOD versions of WinRAR, WinZIP and FlashFXP??

Does WinXP have ASPI embedded??
thanks

[unicorn]

Ghost, it is okey, Ghost doesn't care about your BIOS.
Winrar: 3.1 I think, Winzip: ?, FlashFXP: 2.1 build 922 (from May 2003) but thats for me, others may have better stuff...
ASPI: No, I have always added them by hand. They also may be added by some CD-rom burning software if you don't have it installed allready.

hth somewhat,

[~*McoreD*~]

Hi moen,

I would recommend Reinstallation of Windows is the way to get the best use of upgrading BIOS.

If this article applies to you, you would definitely need to reinstall Windows.

Quote:

The BIOS upgrade requires and upgrade of the Hardware Abstraction Layer (HAL) of Windows XP. Some HAL upgrades can be accomplished by using the Device Manager, in particular the Device Manager can be used when upgraded a single processor system to a multi-processor system. However, the change from non-ACPI to ACPI by changing drivers is not supported. To properly make this change, an in-place up grade (where the computer is converted to ACPI during Setup) is mandatory. We must reinstall the operating system.
Note: The HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) is a set of drivers, upon which the Windows NT kernel is based.

If the installed HAL is incorrect, you may have a problem ranging from certain settings not working (such as
ACPI or APM) to Windows not starting at all.

Reference: HAL Options After Windows XP Setup (Q309283)

If you computer is detected as an ACPI PC, you do not need to worry.

[moen]

Thanks, but HOW do you test to see if your PC is ACPI?

[Dave]

Quote:

Originally posted by moen@Jan 18 2004, 08:22 AM
Thanks, but HOW do you test to see if your PC is ACPI?

If you do a shutdown and windows powers off the computer, it's ACPI.
If it only goes to a screen that says "It is now safe to turn off your computer", then ACPI is either off or not enabled.
Dave

[unicorn]

McoreD, good thinking. I never thought of that he maybe updated the bios into an ACPI version. Then of course he must make a new Ghost after a new install.

[moen]

The mobo is quite new and was ACPI to begin with. I just didi not realize that this was an important point.
thanks

[unicorn]

Then again, if it (the BIOS) was ACPI from start (and there was nothing strange with the first installation), then your old Ghost image should be okey. If nothing else is changed you should be fine.
Besides, what can happen? Ghost won't manipulate your BIOS.