Have my bios been flashed?

[atlantisburn]

Am I getting by this date "System BIOS Date 01/16/02" that the bios have never been flashed or at least since this date?

 

[G0AOZ]

That's the date the BIOS was written (16 Jan 2002), and is the current BIOS in your machine. Impossible to tell if your machine had a previous BIOS version that has been upgraded by this (01/16/02) one...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[atlantisburn]

Written as in a program not written to my chip, correct?

 

[rclarke250]

??? huh??? Bios is a firmware program and is written to the chip...EEPROM...electronically eraseable programmable read only memory.

 

[G0AOZ]

That is the date the BIOS firmware was written, NOT the date it was flashed to your motherboard. If you had a file copy of this BIOS firmware, you could flash it to your motherboard today, but the date you'd see on the screen when booting up would still show as 01/16/02.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[micker377]

I've updated my BIOS twice, and it still shows the original BIOS date. I guess "BIOS" programs don't show update "dates".

 

[G0AOZ]

Micker 377 - could be my error here! Think I'm confusing it with the VERSION number which of course DOES update. Apologies.

ROGER - G0AOZ.