Question Can you flash a newer ASUS BIOS on a old ASUS motherboard

[AutTheWizard]

Go easy on me, I don't understand how the BIOS works very well, and I know this may sound very stupid. But I own a M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3. The BIOS on it is very old, it is the kind that has the blue screen with white text that you navigate with arrow keys, and yes, I checked, it is the latest version of the BIOS. I want to know if it would damage anything if I where to install a newer ASUS bios, you know, the one with the fancy user friendly ui that shows all fans and can like auto OC. Thanks!

 

[ThatVietGuy]

That's not how BIOS updates work.

Simply, no you can't update your BIOS just so you can have a prettier UI.

 

[boju]

Na, can't do that. Your motherboard's bios is the older legacy type. Newer motherboards moved to uefi bios.

Bios's flash program would fail anyway when it validates the rom file.


Maybe use a diagnostics program like HWinfo64 to show system information.

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