Some situations might call for an update or "flash" to your motherboard's BIOS. What does that mean and what are the stakes?

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The BIOS may not be your problem, but it’s an important step to take before moving on to more complicated (and costly) troubleshooting steps with your hardware. A BIOS update caveat.

You should update your motherboard BIOS right now—unless your motherboard is old, then it's not getting a BIOS update. Uh oh.

The BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) on your PC controls fundamental operations, such as guiding the computer on how to boot up and managing communication between the operating system and hardware.

Over the years, the BIOS' services became less important. The use of 16-bit real mode meant that using BIOS functions was very slow, so as PC operating systems migrated in the 1990s to using the ...