Hey all, first post on this forum, though I've skulked around a bit to try and solve my problems.
Alright, backstory first: Acquired a copy of Windows Vista Business edition through my college and the MSDNAA program. I am going to post my issues on that in a bit in the OS Forum, but suffice to say, there have been 'issues' involving a BSOD. So I did some research and found that while my PC can handle it, I didn't know if the BIOS could or not.
After some looking and poking around inside my case, I have learned my BIOS is an AMIBIOS P4C81106 Revision 1019, by American Megatrends, on an Asus P4C800 Deluxe Motherboard. I did some looking on the ASUS website for a newer BIOS revision, but the latest one was a beta from 2005, and it jumped from the 1016 revision to said beta, which was a 1021.005 revision iirc. I dug around on the American Megatrends website, but couldn't find any real BIOS support, other than a link to the Asus page, and a link to a website called E-support. So I shot off an email to esupport and got a call back today. They claim to have the BIOS revision I need, but they wanted 50 dollars for the update, which I am not willing to pay.
So my question to you folks is as follows: Does anyone know what the latest version of the BIOS is for my AMI P4C81106 BIOS chip, and if so, where can I get it? I am desperate for this because it is the only thing I can think of that is causing Vista to fail on my PC.
Here's the link to the Vista issues:
Vista BSOD
My system specifications are:
P4C800 motherboard with an AMIBIOS P4C81106 BIOS chip at revision 1019
Intel P4 3.2 GiHz HT CPU
GeForce 6800 GT 256 MB Graphics Card, AGP 8x
Seagate Barracuda 250 GiB SATA drive
Maxtor 120 GiB SATA drive
Maxtor 250 GiB IDE drive
4 GiB RAM
Unknown PSU.