msi mother board update

I have a new driver for my msi card on their website and I went to install
it and it wanted to flash the bios and told me not to mess with it if I
didn't know what I was doing so how do I update the driver without the flash
or what precautions should I take with flashing of the bios.
Marty

MSI have a bunch of different types of update : if you are looking to update
a driver it should just be a matter of downloading and installing the driver
update. Most driver updates are relatively easily reversible, by
re-installing the previous version. I say "most" because poorly tested driver
updates can disable devices in some configurations - nevertheless, there is
normally a way to reverse a driver update. Updating the BIOS is not the same
at all and should only be done if you are experiencing the types of problems
that the BIOS fix was specifically designed to resolve - why, because
flashing a BIOS involves some risk that the process will fail part way
through and that could disable your means of restoring the original BIOS by
no longer letteing you communicate with the devices you need to flash the
BIOS (ie: you may no longer be able to boot at all)!! Most BIOS flash
utilities first invole a step of making a backup of your existing BIOS (do
not skip that step, it helps you get back if the new BIOS does unexpected
things which do NOT disable your means of flashing back to the older
version). Most BIOS flashing works properly as intended. Many are only
needed if you want to use a newer faster processor that the ones for which
the motherboard was originally designed, or if a conflict is found with a
specific add-in card of some type or other. So in most cases you do not need
to flash the BIOS to the latest version, unless it specifically addresses a
problem you need to resolve.
DaveJ

"Marty" wrote:

> I have a new driver for my msi card on their website and I went to install
> it and it wanted to flash the bios and told me not to mess with it if I
> didn't know what I was doing so how do I update the driver without the flash
> or what precautions should I take with flashing of the bios.
> Marty
>
>
>

There is a new driver for the board but after I download it, I get the bios
flash warning. I have a 865pe neo 2 ms 6728 board and it still has the
origianl p4 processor. I really dont think I need to flash unless its
required for the driver update.
"DaveJ" <DaveJ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:026A25FD-9A7E-4A3E-B69B-49017800FD61@microsoft.com...
> MSI have a bunch of different types of update : if you are looking to
> update
> a driver it should just be a matter of downloading and installing the
> driver
> update. Most driver updates are relatively easily reversible, by
> re-installing the previous version. I say "most" because poorly tested
> driver
> updates can disable devices in some configurations - nevertheless, there
> is
> normally a way to reverse a driver update. Updating the BIOS is not the
> same
> at all and should only be done if you are experiencing the types of
> problems
> that the BIOS fix was specifically designed to resolve - why, because
> flashing a BIOS involves some risk that the process will fail part way
> through and that could disable your means of restoring the original BIOS
> by
> no longer letteing you communicate with the devices you need to flash the
> BIOS (ie: you may no longer be able to boot at all)!! Most BIOS flash
> utilities first invole a step of making a backup of your existing BIOS (do
> not skip that step, it helps you get back if the new BIOS does unexpected
> things which do NOT disable your means of flashing back to the older
> version). Most BIOS flashing works properly as intended. Many are only
> needed if you want to use a newer faster processor that the ones for which
> the motherboard was originally designed, or if a conflict is found with a
> specific add-in card of some type or other. So in most cases you do not
> need
> to flash the BIOS to the latest version, unless it specifically addresses
> a
> problem you need to resolve.
> DaveJ
>
> "Marty" wrote:
>
>> I have a new driver for my msi card on their website and I went to
>> install
>> it and it wanted to flash the bios and told me not to mess with it if I
>> didn't know what I was doing so how do I update the driver without the
>> flash
>> or what precautions should I take with flashing of the bios.
>> Marty
>>
>>
>>