Comments on: MSI Wind BIOS upgrade offers more than Atom over-clocking

By: abcb

abcb — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 11:13:48 +0000

Actually i didn’t have to remove ram to install the bios. Which method did you use? the bootable usb? i used the winflash program and it went without a hitch.

By: Spencer from Electric Vagabond

Spencer from Electric Vagabond — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:24:58 +0000

Thanks for the link again. The video memory upgrade has been around since the 1.07 Bios. The 1.07 Bios was officially released by MSI but pulled from their website as certain flashing methods tended to semi-brick machines.

Video memory is increased to 128MB on 1GB RAM Winds and as you found James 224MB on 2GB RAM machines. This is actually briefly mentioned in the start of my guide (and my 1.08 upgrade guide).

Also as per Step 7 and the troubleshooting section of my guide, you don’t have to remove your RAM (even if it does only take a few mins) you just have to hold Esc when booting to access the bios splash screen to disable the onboard memory there.

Anyway good job on the update. The Wind kicks ass with 1.09 – I think it tips the scales slightly in the Wind’s favor when compared with the 1000H.

By: Des

Des — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:39:27 +0000

The 1.08 bios increased usable graphics memory (certainly did on the Advent 4211 which is the same).

By: seamonkey420

seamonkey420 — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:23:38 +0000

also adds AHCI support!!
however, be prepared for BSODs in XP if you enable it after having XP installed.