firmware chip
1- To upgrade the Rom Bios chip 2- Good reasons to flash BIOS would be to 1.) solve a problem with the motherboard or to 2.) use a new motherboard feature.
Yea the CPU,and the ROM bios chip is the most important chip on the motherboard,even the dma also.
flash the bios
In a ROM or E PROM chip on the motherboard.
The BIOS is used to manage simple devices (system BIOS), the BIOS is used to start the computer (startup BIOS), and the BIOS is used to change settings on the motherboard (CMOS setup).
Read your manual on how to flash your bios, old computers use a floppy disk and new ones use a flash drive or your hard drive, or sd card. There are certain reasons to flash the BIOS, its not a cell phone, where you update the BIOS to make it run better. You only do this if you have to due to a processor change or a problem reported by the MFG. The maker of your motherboard has the instructions on the method of the flash. It is important to read the manual that is for your motherboard. Only boards that are older have a removable chip. Any newer board has the chip soldered in.
The process of upgrading or refreshing the ROM BIOS chip is called flashing BIOS. The power menu in BIOS setup allows you to configure automatic power saving features.
Flash RAM is used for temporary data, such as in a USB drive. Flash ROM is used for bios and system files.
BIOS can be upgraded without replacing the chip.
They are called eproms or eeproms
ROM is incorrect, its Flash Rom