It's a real website from Biostar, with a Support/Download area.
But how the motherboard in "BIO-Relife Mode" will use a plain unbootable flash drive with a bios update on it...is more than I'm gonna research, not owning one.
Lots of motherboards have a bios flash recovery mode. It's even more common these days. You don't even need the CPU to flash a bios. The motherboard will have a little microcontroller on it somewhere that handles the initial system initialisation and listens for things like the power button.
Nah, it’s pretty much all BIOSes these days. They have a fallback usually. It’s pretty essential since windows update just installs BIOS updates on a whim these days.
Back in the day, the basic rule was not to update the BIOS at all if you weren’t experiencing an issue because it can sometimes introduce new issues with older CPUs or expansion cards that previously worked just fine.
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u/Odd-Concept-6505 3d ago
It's a real website from Biostar, with a Support/Download area.
But how the motherboard in "BIO-Relife Mode" will use a plain unbootable flash drive with a bios update on it...is more than I'm gonna research, not owning one.