Originally Posted by spindoctor

hehe yea but i'm a little fidgety and i want to play around with the hardware. the risk is what makes it exciting

seriously though, it's not such a bad idea to flash the bios. an alarmingly high number of users of the aspire one running the default bios have reported that the netbook just stops working sometimes... it kind of gets stuck on the POST screen and doesn't move forward. this is some kind of known issue that was resolved with the 3304 bios. i haven't faced the problem yet but it's always good to take care of it if possible.

there are other improvements as well, including a vga bios update that occurs with a total bios flash which is supposedly better for vram allocation, which was my first issue in this thread. on the downside, i'm hearing that flashing the bios (and specifically with winflash) the cpu fan gets screwed and temperatures start going through the roof. however corleone mentioned he had a perfectly successful winflash so all in all it's still up in the air as to what's going on with the aspire one and it's bios revisions.