Updating the BIOS?

Ordinarily, I'm a strong adviser against updating the BIOS -- because (1) most folks think this is the "miracle cure" for anything that ails their PC, and (2) doing it badly "bricks" your PC.

But ... in this case, there are LOTS of improvements between your current BIOS version and the latest version; thus, if it were my PC, I would update the BIOS -- not to fix the video problem, but simply to gain the improvements and stability.

That said, make sure that BEFORE you do this, you have the following:
1) A way to save off the current working BIOS to some medium that can be used to restore it later
2) A way to restore the saved bios WITHOUT having to boot into Windows to do it.

Been a while since I used ASUS motherboards, but from what I recall, they had something called EZ-flash (or something like that) which allowed you to boot into an app that handled BIOS flashing -- without running Windows. You first saved the current BIOS to a USB stick and then loaded the new BIOS from a USB stick. Took only a few minutes to do, and since recovery was simple, it minimized the risk.

Just a reminder.
Optimize Windows 7 are suggestion NOT must do's.
You can pick and choose which one of the suggestions you want to do. Some of the suggestions I use and some I don't.

Information
This is a list of suggestions that will help show you how to optimize Windows 7 by speeding up and improving it's performance.

You can pick and choose which ones you would like to do, or feel comfortable doing. If you do not notice an increase in performance or have a problem with the suggestion, then you can always go back and undo the suggestion at it's provided tutorial link.

If you have a question about one of the options, then please feel free to post a question here. We'll be happy to help.

This list of suggestions will continue to be ongoing. I will be adding and updating suggestions to this list every so often, so you may would like to check back from time to time for anything new.

If you like, please feel free to post any of your own suggestions that you find to help the performance of Windows 7.