I was wonder if it is a good ideas to upgrade your Bios by yourself or take the computer to the dealer and He can do -it for you..my manufacturer for my mobo..said I must upgrade my bios in order to upgrade my CPU ,and the video card ,and the Ram.. my motherboard: FIC-VA-503+ via apollo Mvp3 ..124MHZ FSB...it will support the K6-2/550MHZ if I update my Bios..thanks for any Good advice...

go to the fic homepage and see it they have an updated bios for your motherboard. make sure you note your bios version numbers, you can see these when you boot up you machine. If they have an updated bios , download it, copy it to floppy and then do a cold boot to that floppy, the rest is pretty self explanatory. You will be able to save yourself 40 dollars toward your new video card this way.Remember your will not be able to put a faster cpu than 550 mhz no matter what bios you use. also if the bios update gets interrupted it will render your cmos(bios)useless and you will be going to the shop anyway , so be careful.

my current bios is V:1.15jE35 .... and the manufacturer of my mobo..they send for me a update bios till jE439 ...but I know it is dangerous to do-it ...thanks.

Upgrading the Bios is quite easy. I can not seem to remember which kind of bios is on the Fic 503+, but you can tell by doing this. Check on the board to see if you have the flash bios (bios chip mounted on the the mobo), or the standard bios (the removable chip in a plug socket). If it a flash bios, you can just go to the Fic website and download the files to program the bios. Other ways, if you have the standard bios, you just need to replace the chip set. Good Luck!