Argh, dammit, when will someone come up with a bios flashing system that doesn't require a floppy??!?!

[notfred]

The only floppy disk I can find doesn't work :|

 

[Geekbabe]

MSI has a web based bios update... it actually workes pretty well too though I'm more comfortable with the old fashioned floppy method

 

[spanky]

couldn't u actually do it with a zip if ur mobo supports booting to zip? or cd also (via burning a bootable cd)?

 

[Viper GTS]

You can flash your BIOS off your HD just as easily.

There are even Windows based BIOS flash utilities (Like I trust them

).

Viper GTS

 

[notfred]

<< You can flash your BIOS off your HD just as easily. >>



Yeah, if I run DOS

My board isn't an MSI board.....

I don't have any blank CD's either 😕

 

[XxSuNSoOxX]

you can flash from your hd,, just put the program in a temp folder and in dos just access that folder and run the program thats how i flash my bios,, cuz i have no floppies and im too cheap to go buy them =(

 

[tim0thy]

man, and i still have some of those AOL disks they send out... bey you miss those now. 😛

 

[notfred]

<< you can flash from your hd,, just put the program in a temp folder and in dos just access that folder and run the program thats how i flash my bios,, cuz i have no floppies and im too cheap to go buy them =( >>



As far as I know, DOS only came on floppies. If I had DOS to install, I'd jsut format one of the DOS disks.

 

[QTPie]

if your system is win9x, you can boot up in "safe mode with command prompt only" (hit F8 when it starts booting), and you can safely flash bios from there. I did that several time before without any problem. I think you can do it with win2K, too.

 

[Derango]

Dell BIOS updates can be done in a hard drive mode from within windows....however...that dosen't work so well 🙂

 

[Kadarin]

Somehow, it strikes me that being able to flash the BIOS from within Windows is kind of scary from the virus aspect.

 

[SuperSix]

When?

Now:
Abit
Asus
GigaByte
MSI

Buy a new motherboard or some blank CD's 😀

 

[toant103]

you can do it in dos. file on hard drive. faster than floppy. 🙂

 

[subflava]

If you don't want to use a Windows based flasher which many people have mentioned, you just have to find a way to get into DOS-mode. One method I haven't seen mentioned is to boot from a copy of Win95/98 on CD (it should be bootable). When it gets to the menu, just choose "Continue booting without CD-ROM support" as opposed to continuing with the OS install. This will get you to the command prompt.

Remember, the first thing you need to do is to put the BIOS file and flash utility into a temporary folder on your HD. After you've booted from the CD, just chdir to the folder on your C: drive and run the flasher.

 

[Soybomb]

<< Somehow, it strikes me that being able to flash the BIOS from within Windows is kind of scary from the virus aspect. >>



Viruses? I'm scared of windows crashing, mid flash!!