Software

Among unique features of Biostar’s T series mainboards I have so far discussed the hardware (i.e. the mainboard itself) and the BIOS. Now it’s time to check out the software aspect. You’ll see the following screen when you insert the drivers and utilities CD into your optical drive:

There are no floating tips to appear on your moving the pointer over the icons, but it is easy to guess that the chip icon in the top right of the window begins driver installation. The book with a question mark will open up the electronic user manual. But where are the programs and utilities? I looked up in the manual and found that another icon, a gear, was supposed to be between these two.

Where is it I wonder? Is it the OS’s fault again? The Biostar TForce P965 earned Windows Vista certification for its technical capabilities, so why couldn’t they update the software?

I had to install the programs one by one using an ordinary file manager and the best one of them was the Windows-based BIOS re-flash utility.

It reports the mainboard model as well as the date and current version of the BIOS (P96BAC29 BS). You can save or re-flash the BIOS and even download the new version via the Internet after installing the additional Live Update module.

I can’t say anything bad, and anything good either, about the system monitoring program: