Socketed BIOS chips were probably for ease of manufacturing. Since you couldn't program the chips in-circuit they had to programmed before installation in the motherboard.

Here are several helpful tips for you. Including how to reflash your bios with a known good BIOS. I would: 1 - make sure the power supply you are using is know to be good (test yours in another ...

A tiny BIOS chip lurks inside every computer, sitting on your motherboard to breathe life into your system when you press the power button. It not only powers your PC, but helps protect it, too ...

another crazy idea on the latest aorus stealth ice mobo is that gigabyte seems to upgrades the bios chip ic from 32MB to 64MB for wifi driver preloading.this makes sure every user can use the wifi ...

This innovation, supported by larger 64MB BIOS chips, enhances user convenience and expands AM5 CPU compatibility, streamlining fresh Windows setups.

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Other manufacturers of AMD-compatible motherboards haven’t released new BIOS updates, but more may follow soon out of an abundance of caution — those X3D chips don’t come cheap.

BIOS updates are slowly starting to roll out for Intel's best CPUs, and for once, it seems like good news. ... The chip scored an impressive 3,401 points in the single-core score, ...