You Asked: Do I Need to Clear Cmos After Bios Update?
Contents Distinguished. You Don’t Have to Do It, but You Need to Check Your Cmos Is Set up Correctly, and Probably Load Defaults from There. There May Be Good...
Distinguished. You don’t have to do it, but you need to check your CMOS is set up correctly, and probably load defaults from there. There may be good reasons why they say to, though.
Does updating BIOS Clear CMOS?
The CMOS reset only “loads optimized defaults”, it will not remove any BIOS update already performed.
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Do I need to do anything after updating BIOS?
BIOS updates will not make your computer faster, they generally won’t add new features you need, and they may even cause additional problems. You should only update your BIOS if the new version contains an improvement you need.
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