If you're not 100% sure of the motherboard identification, post a good pic here. Bad idea to go flashing BIOS on a belief, particularly with Intel OEM boards with soldered EEPROMs...

Mirror250 wrote on 2025-04-30, 12:09:

I recently picked up a Dell dimension v350 which has what I believe to be an intel AR440BX motherboard. I have scoured the web trying to find a BIOS update file for it, and have hit a dead end. If someone could point me in the right direction or provide a file I would greatly appreciate it. Currently it has BIOS revision A05, and from what I gather the last version was A08.

Hmm, I have one of these that I need to test out.

Try here, looks like A08 and A07 are both present: https://web.archive.org/web/20170606115347/ht … imension-v.html

And it's still actually on their site, but all the metadata for what the bios update actually does seems to have been lost over time: https://www.dell.com/support/product-details/ … nsion-v/drivers

dionb wrote on 2025-04-30, 13:43:

If you're not 100% sure of the motherboard identification, post a good pic here. Bad idea to go flashing BIOS on a belief, particularly with Intel OEM boards with soldered EEPROMs...

It's a pretty distinctive motherboard, regular ATX with no AGP slot, ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP video chip and (apparently optional but it's on mine) Yamaha YMF724 sound chip 😀

Thanks everyone, I'll try it out and report back when I can.

I appreciate it guys those were the correct files, hope this helps someone in the future.

Thanks for the link Thermalwrong, and thanks for reporting that the BIOS works Mirror250. I'm currently resurrecting one of these systems that has issues!