How To Update Your BIOS! (And Should You?!)

How to update your motherboard BIOS, and SHOULD YOU? Join PC Centric for the full guide on a USB bios update, how to flash your motherboard!

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00:00 How To Update Your BIOS
01:25 What Is The BIOS?
04:21 Why You Would Want To Update
06:01 What You Will Need
08:20 USB BIOS Flashing
09:55 Updating The BIOS
11:58 Conclusion

[jesus]

You dropped this video exactly when I needed it thank you

[Vinyl]

I was scared to update my bios from 3.10 to 11.12 but you gave me courage to update. Thank you so much :)

[rapidwatergt]

Dude, I just built a PC and was thinking if I needed to update the bios to the latest or not until I found this vid. Tysm!!

[TheEvdiggity]

Be aware if you have a multi 'monitor' setup where you only use one at a time (in my case a monitor and a TV), that flash mode will select what it considers as your default display. I was on my monitor trying to update my bios and when I entered flash mode through the bios, my screen went blank and remained that way and I thought that I had messed up. What happened was the computer/bios chose my TV as the default 'monitor' and output the video signal to that (which I did not initially see because I had it turned off). If you get a blank screen like I did, check your alternate output source(s) if you have any.

[bitsGame]

its so funny how i was actually thinking about this topic like an hour ago thanks so much

[PascalPimpare]

Fun story. When I was younger, around 14 I'd say, I went to a friend's house and played on his computer a bit. While he was away, to go run an errand with his mom I think, he left me with the PC. Out of boredom, I hit the DEL key to enter BIOS and I found things that were disabled. I thought hey, I should enable those to make his PC better! I'm such a good friend. So I enabled EVERYTHING. Needless to say, he wasn't very pleased. (For those who wouldn't get it, the PC stopped working and he had to send it for repair).

[naacal]

Hey there! Great video with tons of useful info. One suggestion: having two wide-angle shots that are very similar can be quite jarring to watch. Consider mixing it up by using a close-up shot for the second one, maybe focusing on the screen or whatever you're demonstrating. This would make the video smoother and more engaging.

[foundeddandy]

Thank you I’ve been watching your channel over a year now and this video was very helpful and straightforward thanks once again

[Hoodini_GB]

Every one of your videos are so helpful you make everything so simple :)

[KiltedCritic]

Simple one for me, my new AM5 MB didn't support the 7800X3D CPU out the box, so had to use the flashback option. All done in 5 minutes, and then running with the CPU.

[Dr.Dp]

No matter how many times you do it, a BIOS update is squeaky bum time. It's like asking for trouble and the old if it ain't broke, don't fix it mantra is trying, compelling you not to do it.

That nervous wait as the install progress bar goes up, the power down, the restart...everything crossed, hoping its worked!

[chills_tiny_mom]

Tysm for these kinds of videos, especially those building new pcs and need to update bios for their cpus to work

[Naweynawey-he]

Bro thanks I needed that info for about 5 an a half years thanks

[djordjek]

Bro you made day with that intro. I laughed so hard. 😂😂 Subbed. Great content also!

[gregciuba]

Bought MSI b660m mortar 2022, everything worked perfectly fine. Upadated to the latest BIOS version and the system would just NOT save the Fan curves, the system would work with fans at blasting 100% rolled back and it worked just fine. Not upgrading my CPU any time soon so don't really see a point. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.

[David-pilb]

It's good to do a vid like this every once in a while. There are infinite vids about installing the latest GPU but people should really watch this too.

[Kapono]

They say if your not having any issues, DONT UPDATE BIOs

[marcinmowinski]

My motherboard is running memory training every time I turn my PC on. I wonder if a BIOS update would fix that.

[userbunny]

so you only need the most recent one, right? when i first built my PC, I updated the bios with the most recent version. But now I'm looking at possibly getting a 9800x3d if they don't get jacked up way above msrp where I live and sold out. I'll have to update bios again... and there's been... over a dozen updates to bios since I did mine... I don't have to install ALL of them, do I? Just the newest?

[Nxtrogen]

Building a PC at the end of July. What's the first thing I should do when I turn it on? Boot into Windows install or sort out BIOS?