Thxs Gary,
I know that this is a *dangerous/risky and I did mention my nervousness. My
BIOS has EZ Flash and Crash Free BIOS feature. However, I don't believe
Crash Free, not with the obvious warnings given. I am not rushing into this
experience and I don't welcome it for my life. I wish I had you here to do
it for me. The instructions are well written in MB book... I did watch
someone do the BIOS update for my old Jetway MB. I was very nervous then
and I was only watching. The Jetway had to be replaced, had leaking
capacitors!!

BIOS chip toast... is that the worst that could happen, approx. what does a
BIOS chip cost, and of course, no BIOS chip, no boot to Win. OS and you are
left w/unusable machine??

Thxs., Star

"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message
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Rule number two for flashing BIOS (rule #1 is "If it ain't broke...")

Make sure you have the system on a well charged, tested, dependable
battery backup UPS. If the operation is interrupted for *any* reason,
the BIOS chip is toast--you would need to find someone with a bench
setup to reprogram it or simply purchase another. I've had it happen to
me. Puts a real damper on the party. Only positive side was that the
newer BIOS chip actually worked better.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS MVP Shell/User
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/cleanboot.htm
http://www.grystmill.com/articles/security.htm

"Star" wrote in message
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*** I have never updated the BIOS on this celeron 4 machine. I've been
looking at the MB book and it does give me info and directions on how
to do
this. I do note a **warning** only update the BIOS if you are having
trouble w/MB ?? However, I have the directions to save the my current
Bios
and can revert back if something goes wrong!! It will be my first
time
doing this so I will be nervous!! I've learned much from this
newsgroup,
however some tasks and TS come easier than others for me. I'm really
not a
hands-on TS, hate inside the case TS, but will TS OS problems,
partition and
install OS, drivers and can within my limitations reasonably tweak
Windows.
Also Brian this is not my first experience w/SiS chipsets, had them
also on
my Celeron 3 Jetway MB, SiS 630 display chipset and the audio chip is
the
sameone I had on the Jetway, 7012. However, never had a problem
updating the
display adapter, but the MB capacitors leaked and the MB was replaced
and
the CPU.