View Full Version : what is the size of BIOS?
ltev2006
November 7th, 2006, 12:26 PM
anyone knows? I mean the system's BIOS... that is stored in motherboard.
RACKnRAIL
November 7th, 2006, 12:50 PM
I am not certain, but I believe they vary in size. I know they have to be large enough to store flash updates, which also vary in size. I d/l'd a bios update once that was about .5 mb in size. So I am going to guess they are between 4-8 mb, but that is just a guess. I'm sure older ones were smaller.
cjules13
November 7th, 2006, 12:50 PM
Small enough to fit on a floppy I thought.
Krell
November 7th, 2006, 01:14 PM
They vary in size, go to the BIOS manufacturers site for the rest of your questions.
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Greylin
November 7th, 2006, 04:26 PM
You can find out the size of your BIOS and tons of other useful info with a freeware tool called SIW (http://www.gtopala.com/siw_hardware_bios.html)
Lord_of_the_Dense
November 7th, 2006, 06:26 PM
About .5 by 1 inch.
silentscream
November 7th, 2006, 11:56 PM
About .5 by 1 inch.
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