Given the steady trickle of BIOS-related questions that I get via email, I think that it's time for a post to demystify BIOS updates and the role they have in keeping your PC in tip-top condition.

OK, trying to set up a pure DOS machine for a legacy app we have.....the problem is that the craptastic eMachine (Cellery 400) I was given is reserving a rather large block of upper memory ...

Well, the thread title pretty much says it all. My freind said he was having trouble with his system, and gave it to me to take a look. <br><br>The majority of the words in dos and the bios are ...

AFUWIN.EXE, UCORESYS.SYS, UCOREVXD and UCOREW64.SYS: These are the Flash Memory Writer utility that updates the BIOS to the programmable flash ROM chip on specific model. The latest BIOS is embedded ...