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CD-drive Motherboard Flash?

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Dopekitten

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My HDD crashed, and i think my motherboard is fucked up, it refuses to let me install Vista again (the disk works, tested it on other computers)

I want to attempt to flash my motherboard with a CD becuase all my flash drives are in use and i don't have floppy drives/a floppy drive.

Could somebody point me in the right direction?

I have a Asus P5Q-E, and it has a flash application built into the bios, do i even need to make a bootable CD? Can i just put the data on the CD and then access it like a hard drive?
 
I haven't personally used it that way, but you should beable to just put the bios file on the flash drive and access it that way. or you would have to make a bootable cd with the bios file and updater
 
ASUS Q-Flash will lets you flash via USB. I can't say for sure it won't with a CD but you can try? You don't need to actually flash but you can enter the Q-Flash utility and see if it finds the CD. If it does, then maybe it lets you do it but my guess is it won't see the CD.

It is probably a better idea to make a bootable CD and it shouldn't be any more difficult than flashing via USB. You burn a bootable CD with the BIOS ROM, and change the boot sequence in the BIOS so it boots from CD-ROM. From there you'll just have to follow the direction.

This is how it usually works but double-check with your board's manual. And I always turn off the system (instead of soft reboot) after a BIOS flash.
 
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