They describe the changes made to the BIOS for each version, but don't go into detail about why the changes were made... mostly for the processor to recognize new hardware, I gather. Witness.

I used to Flash my BIOS on my old IBM Aptiva whenever a new version came out and never experienced a problem. Of course Big Blue used to notify me by email about the new upgrades. Dell never has.

I've heard problems can arise if the power goes out on you or you halt the Flash process before it's finished. Things like frying your chip or motherboard. I'm not much concerned with that, but I'm wondering whether it will interfere with some versions of software I'm running now (some of which were written for WIN95). Also, some driver upgrades available on the Dell Support site seem as though they refer to later versions of the BIOS. I should probably just go ahead and Flash the BIOS. I can always Flash back to the present version; they have that one available too.

But Guest above is right with his old axiom too.

DEcisions, decisions...