A8N -SLI DELUXE motherboard bios update

does this motherboard have an auto update facility ,if not where do you get the update from ,my current bios version is 1015 ,also is there any advantage in updating it.
thankyou dogsbody

 

My rule of thumb on bios updates is to leave them alone ,UNLESS, you are having problems.
Are you having any problems?

FYI: You would start on the Asus web site.

 

thankyou runner789
no i'm not having trouble .but being an inquisitive type i would have liked to have known.i have been to the asus web site ,but with all these sites unless you know what you should be looking for ,its all greek to me.
dogsbody.

 

It may be worthwhile, especially if you're contemplating using a RAID configuration, in the future. I have the A8N-SLI Premium board, and the Tech I bought it from mentioned that I should download the latest BIOS for that board from Asus and get the nvRAID 2.0 drivers and GUI application from nVidia. He pointed out, that, if I was interested in a RAID installation it would be beneficial. Well, the nvRAID 2.0 was already on the Motherboard installation CD so I just needed the BIOS. One advantage to the latest RAID BIOS and drivers, is that a preinstalled Windows can be added to the RAID set without damage. Usually, you'd have to do a GHOST image or equivalent backup, then do a CMOS-BIOS creation of the RAID set, and then configure GHOST to use only INT13 disk access, and finally use GHOST to rebuild your Windows across your new stripe set. Now, you can just enter your CMOS-BIOS enable RAID, and then in the RAID-BIOS create a RAID-0 (stripe) of one disk. That's your Windows disk. Then start Windows normally. Following the excellent documentaion provided on the CD in a PDF file, you can "morph" that single drive RAID 0 into any of the other supported RAID sets. Mult-drive ( 2-4) RAID 0, 2 drive RAID 1 and 4 drive RAID 0+1 (RAID 10) are supported via "morphing".

 

You can get update 1016 build at asus website.
I have this same mobo and update is pretty easy.
Read the readme file or manual
If you are not familiar with flashing or having problems you may be better to leave alone as stated by Prometheos

 

to prometheos and eyeblazin.
i thought i had posted an acknowledgement of your help in answering my question ,i must have finger trouble, however in reading your very detailed responses i have decided to leave well alone until i do need to update,but have copied and pasted your answers for future reference.thank you for your assistance once again.
dogsbody