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Maintaining, Installing, and Conﬁguring a Motherboard

The motherboard CD might also contain useful utilities, including one that you can install

in Windows, to monitor the CPU temperature and alert you if overheating occurs. Figure 3-37

shows the main menu for one motherboard driver CD.

Figure 3-37 Main menu of motherboard drivers, utilities, and documentation CD

Courtesy: Course Technology/Cengage Learning

The motherboard manufacturer updates motherboard drivers from time to time. For an

unstable motherboard, you can try downloading and installing updated chipset drivers and

other drivers for onboard components. Figure 3-38 shows the download page for one Intel

motherboard where you can download BIOS and drivers.

To download the right drivers, you need to ﬁrst identify your motherboard brand and

model number. Your documentation for the PC should contain that information. If you

don’t have that, open the case and look for the brand and model imprinted somewhere on

the board (see Figure 3-39).

FLASHING ROM BIOS

Recall that ROM BIOS includes the BIOS setup program, the startup BIOS that

manages the startup process, and the system BIOS that manages basic I/O functions of

the system. All these programs are considered firmware and are stored on a chip on the

motherboard, called the ROM BIOS chip or firmware chip. If a motherboard becomes

unstable (such as when the system hangs at odd times), some functions are lost (such as

a USB port stops working), or you want to incorporate some new feature or component

on the board (such as when you upgrade the processor), you might need to upgrade the

programming stored on the ROM BIOS chip. The process of upgrading or refreshing

the ROM BIOS chip is called updating the BIOS, flashing BIOS, or flashing ROM.

The BIOS updates are downloaded from the motherboard manufacturer’s Web site.

If you can’t find an upgrade on this site, try the BIOS manufacturer Web site or a

third-party site.

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