Do I need to do ALL of the steps to flash my BIOS on an Epox board?

[spazntwich1]

There have been so many BIOS releases for the 8KHA now, and I'm sitting here still using the first one like a loser.

The thing is, at the POST screen, I see the "Hit Alt + f2 to Go into AWDFLASH.EXE". This leads me to believe I could just slap the .bin file onto a floppy, put it into the computer, bootup, and hit alt+f2.

Am I horrendously wrong? The instructions included with the floppy are just a little bit... "out-dated" sounding, so I wonder if their instructions to make a bootable floppy and such are totally necessary.

Can I get some suggestions from some fellow Epox mobo owners?

 

[RichieZ]

just make a bootable dos disk and then run the .exe file which will extract the files to the a disk.

Then when the computer boots just type in update, thats all.

 

[RalfHutter]

You can definately do it the "alt+F2" way. The only downside is that it doesn't create a backup of your old BIOS in case you need it for repair.

Just read the warnings, most important is DON"T POWER DOWN while flashing. I have a UPS so it's no big deal for me.

 

[spazntwich1]

Ok, thanks for the info.

I wish I had a UPS actually, it would give me some peace of mind during my flash. Good thing the EPB is good about brownouts here. I don't think I've had a brown-out that wasn't caused by me (dont ask ) in... almost forever.