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PC Hacks: Upgrade Your Flash BIOS

Overview Sometimes only after a product gets to market and is used in a lot of different situations can a vendor learn of problems or limitations. Nearly every system board and PC system on the market undergoes at least one significant revision of the BIOS after the product has been released for sale. Most of them think nothing of seeking out the latest patches and updates for the application software and hardware drivers in hopes of solving a problem, gaining a feature, or boosting performance, but rarely does one think of updating the software and internal drivers that make the system board tick - the system BIOS.

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Publisher	O'Reilly Media	File Format	PDF
Date Published	October 2004	Downloads	4
Format	Book chapters
Topics	Desktop Systems - PCs, Graphics Applications

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