Flash bios without floppy

Reliant

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Can I flash my video card bios without a floppy?
I don't currently have a floppy drive.
 

Reliant

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I can't get on to the Warp 11 site to download the bios, does anyone know of an alternate site I can get the files to flash with?
 

moemac8

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You have the same motherboard that I do, the awesome Abit IS7-E. Go to Abit's site to the bios update page and download the Flash Menu program. It will download and install new updates while you are in Windows. Just hit update, it will go out to Abit and get the bios you need and install it automatically. Shut off your computer and clear the CMOS by moving the jumper for a couple of minutes then turn it back on. One warning... i have a Serial ATA hard drive as my C drive and a IDE drive as my D drive. If you boot off the serial ATA drive you have to go into the bios and tell it to Under the Hard Drive Priority selector. I just flashed my bios and it wouldnt boot up, it seems that IDE drives are automatically selected for booting on a reset bios.

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/bios.php?categories=1&model=80 there is the page, Flash Menu is the first download on the page
 

Reliant

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Originally posted by: moemac8
You have the same motherboard that I do, the awesome Abit IS7-E. Go to Abit's site to the bios update page and download the Flash Menu program. It will download and install new updates while you are in Windows. Just hit update, it will go out to Abit and get the bios you need and install it automatically. Shut off your computer and clear the CMOS by moving the jumper for a couple of minutes then turn it back on. One warning... i have a Serial ATA hard drive as my C drive and a IDE drive as my D drive. If you boot off the serial ATA drive you have to go into the bios and tell it to Under the Hard Drive Priority selector. I just flashed my bios and it wouldnt boot up, it seems that IDE drives are automatically selected for booting on a reset bios.

http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/bios.php?categories=1&model=80 there is the page, Flash Menu is the first download on the page

I did mean my video card, it was locked and I couldn't overclock it!
 

tenoc

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btw, how come you you can afford such nice parts but not an $8 or so floppy drive?

Or is it a mental thing?
rolleye.gif
 

jagare

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Since my floppy isnt hooked up.. when I need to flash motherboard bios or whatever I just select Win 98 from my boot menu (win98, xp dual boot) and hit f8 and go to the command prompt and do it from there. I know it isn't the 'safe' way to do it like you would with a floppy but it hasn't failed me in 3 years. :)
 

Reliant

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Originally posted by: tenoc
btw, how come you you can afford such nice parts but not an $8 or so floppy drive?

Or is it a mental thing?
rolleye.gif

My floppy broke a couple years ago, haven't needed it so I never replaced it.