I have what I think is an asus motherboard with award bios, but I'm having trouble finding the particular bios for it. The id string is 05/24/2002-SIS650-P4S266VX. The bios right now are Award Medallion Bios v6.0 revision 1003. Someone else posted they had the same id string as I do, but with revision 1002 and I think a different Award version, and someone replied with a file called AWA004XDGH.exe. Would this work with my bios? Thanks

Do you have a name brand computer? If you do then do not try any BIOS not from them. The wrong BIOS will destroy your motherboard. ASUS makes many OEM motherboards. They do not support these boards. BIOS updates must come from the company that made the computer.

I have a Sony Vaio. I think the person who posted the file got it from the Sony support website.

It's a Sony OEM mboard, used in an Asus. Look here: http://www.elhvb.com/mboards/intel/Sony.html Never flash your bios unless you are sure it will solve a problem you are having. It's almost always something else that is the problem. If you want to flash to support a hard drive size your bios can't handle, there are other ways of doing that. If hard drive size is over 128mb, flashing the bios usually doesn't help - you need to use the manufacturers instructions/utilities to install them, or a hard drive controller card.

I want to flash to hopefully get a little better performance out of my nvidia geforce fx 5200, but it doesn't look like I'll ever get new bios, if they even exhist. I've been trying for weeks to just get a simple yes or no answer as to whether or not there are new bios to update for my mboard. All I got from sony was an automated answer saying to look on their support page, which I've already cavity-searched 8 million times, everyone else keeps telling me just not to flash the wrong bios, which I already know, thats why I'm taking such precautions to find the right one. If there are no new bios listed in the upgrade section for my model on the sony support page, does that mean I'm out of luck?

You said "I want to flash to hopefully get a little better performance out of my nvidia geforce fx 5200, ....." If the release notes for the mboard bios update do not mention fixing problems with that nvidia card, which is very very unlikely, flashing the bios will not help. Look on the Nvidia site to see if it mentions problems with your motherboard, or the chipset on your mboard - you're very unlikely to find that as well. The best you can do is get the latest drivers for the nvidia card, and at least the minimum DirectX version it requires for that updated driver. No video card works perfectly with everything. Flashing the bios is not a cure-all, and always involves the risk the flash chip will fail while flashing - this is COMMON, not rare! You can usually get another flash chip, already flashed, but your computer will be useless until then.

ok, thank you