OEM Custom Bios

stevieray said:

This thread piqued my curiosity.

I can't figure out why the mods would frown on sharing BIOS tweaks. Most banned activities, like sharing torrent info, I can understand the reasoning... but this one baffles me.

Could someone enlighten me? What am I missing?

I don't want to accidentally cross any lines... but I can't figure out where this line is drawn.

Thanks

I think it is due to the illegal/cracking methods one could do with such knowledge concerning the BIOS like putting a custom BIOS to by pass Computrace...things like that

Legacy Code said:

Google is your friend , but id recommend not to mess about with it to be honest.

But Bing! is your life long buddy.

Generator said:

It's never a good idea to mess about with BIOS in that sense.

Legit flashes can be scary enough when you know that the motherboard makers have wrote them, nevermind a hacker or cracker or whatever you wanna call them. :)

Lol, very scary indeed. I updated my HP's BIOS with the update on HP's site, I thought it killed itself because it sat there on start up for 5 minutes. Worked fine ever since but geez I almost died of a heart attack.

DarkNovaGundam said:

But Bing! is your life long buddy.




Lol, very scary indeed. I updated my HP's BIOS with the update on HP's site, I thought it killed itself because it sat there on start up for 5 minutes. Worked fine ever since but geez I almost died of a heart attack.

This is why I got a "dual BIOS" board. It was so nice flashing this baby. I didn't even need to worry. haha If it fails it just moves to then next BIOS then copies it to the ruined one. These are nice.

To answer the original question...I would not mess with the BIOS when you can get a better board for $50. Just do that if you need features you don't have.

I own a few HP machines myself, and have had the sleep issue before updating the BIOS to the newest firmware I have yet to see it with the new firmware and Windows 7.
As for the flashing a HP with a moded bios I would highly recommend not doing that, due to HP having mobo makers change some of their boards to fit what HP wants it might be a minor tweak that HP wanted but it could be something the new modder never thought of and you would create a nice new heavy paper weight.
I would update to the newest firmware and add the ram you where looking at, and then do some research on a new board while you use the current firmware config.