Important Bios Question

[Empathy]

My wife recently bought a Wal-Mart puter Compaq Presario SR1303WM. Reason for this was to free up my gaming rig so I can play in more LAN parties and Grad Work. I did some mild upgrades added a dedicated inexpensive video card MSI/Nvidia 5200 128 meg. 256 megs of Crucial pc 3200 and a better cpu fan. It came stock with a AMD Sempron 3000+ 256 megs ram (hyperion) and a simple cdrw/dvd drive (lite on) and nothing much more to write home about except the Mobo. Here is the question. The MOBO it came with was an ASUS A7V8X-MX SE VIA KM400 Chipset. Would it be possible to upgrade using the ASUS bios from the website and get rid of the locked bios that Compaq supplied? The locked bios has alot of features missing that the Mobo has, using the original ASUS unlocked bios would open them up. Allowing for a few more inexpesnive upgrades.

Thanks -Empathy

My Gaming Rig
ASUS p4c800-e dlx (volt modified)
Intel p4 3.4EE (5% overclocked using AI)(thermaltake spark 7 cpu fan running at 6000 RPM) CPU is 40c idle max 52c under full load)
2048 gig of geil pc3500 (1 gig geil ultra x plat 3ddr) (1 gig geil golden dragon winbon chips)
Sapphire radeon x800pro (thinking of bios modifying)
Creative Audigy 2 Platinum Sound Card
2 western digital 160gig hds running windows xp sp2
480w thermalke xaser 3 psu
Heavily modified Chieftec Dragon Tower
5 (one in side window for video card) fans in tower using Vantec Nexus Fan controller 2 in front inward-2 rare outward
Coolermaster Cooldrive 4 to monitor cpu, video card case and mobo temps also controlling 1 of the case fans
ASUS DVD drive & ASUS 5232AS CDRW drive
All wires in case where loomed using Vantec Glow in dark Blue neon wire sleeving.
2 thermaltake neon blue light (top and bottom) to show of hardware in case through full window

 

[o1die]

I wouldn't try it. You'll void your warranty or end up with a dead board. Asus has a flash recovery program on some of it's cd's, but it may not work if the bios has a compaq signiture.