Should I update my bios?

seth125 · January 26, 2017

hello y'all. well let's see. A few months ago and mostly after long sessions of use my rig didn't boot, but instead it restarted several times just to show that the main bios was corrupted and needed to repair it. After a while it did the job and for some sessions of work it went smoothly again, until it the issue occurred all over again. The bios kept getting corrupted and recovered quite constantly so I tried removing the batt, cleaning the cmos and those little tweaks I could think of and surprisingly happened to fix the issue, don't know how, but it did.

A few days e issue started all over agains, once more but this time way more often, and this time cleaning the cmos or removing the batt seemed not to work anymore. It happens now every time I turn my rig on.

Don't know what to do now. I was thinking in flashing the bios but I have my doubts. Not sure what the hints for a failing bios should I been looking for or if upgrading would be recommended. I want to make sure this time for isn't the first time I fry a mobo while attempting to upgrade the bios.

Shiv78 · January 26, 2017

-ignore this posted in wrong thread i am so sorry-

@Energycore pls delete

Cylon Muffins · January 26, 2017

Upgrading the BIOS should be a fairly low risk, if you want to feel extra safe you can always go the Q-FLASH route (stick the update on a USB drive, flash from within the UEFI/BIOS - google your mobo for specific instructions if you need help). If you've had a bad experience in the past though, I can't blame your hesitancy

seth125 · January 26, 2017

Thanks. I've read a lot about this thread and now I feel confident about flashing the bios. The only thing is: does it has to do anything about the bios failure or could it be a hardware thing? Could flashing it improve anything? I now my mobo isn't exactly new (Z77x ud5h) and I had some minor issues like having to give several tries for it to save the boot priority, which I didn't mention earlier, and some random boot option clinging that shouldn't be there and even disconnecting all drives and restoring default bios settings it persists. I'll share pics if needed.

That been en said importa pretty happy with its overall performances. I don't know if it came defective or it's time to upgrade the mobo or what. My prime objective is to overcome this bios corrupted thing which is obnoxious.

then again thanks for your help and time.