How do all you Hackintosh (or even apple people) flash firmware?

[scootermaster]

There's got to be a better way of doing this!

 

[ViRGE]

What firmware are you looking to flash? The only thing PC owners usually end up flashing are mobos, and the good mobos have come with built-in flashing utilities for a few years now.

 

[scootermaster]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
What firmware are you looking to flash? The only thing PC owners usually end up flashing are mobos, and the good mobos have come with built-in flashing utilities for a few years now.

Oh?

I've got a Gigabyte DS3L mobo and a Samsung S223 DVD Burner I'd like to flash. Best I can tell, both of these have .EXE files to flash them. Am I missing something?

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: ViRGE
What firmware are you looking to flash? The only thing PC owners usually end up flashing are mobos, and the good mobos have come with built-in flashing utilities for a few years now.

Oh?

I've got a Gigabyte DS3L mobo and a Samsung S223 DVD Burner I'd like to flash. Best I can tell, both of these have .EXE files to flash them. Am I missing something?

You can try the direct-connect feature in VMware, I guess. I believe that gives 1:1 control of the DVD-ROM drive, so it might work that way.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: ViRGE
What firmware are you looking to flash? The only thing PC owners usually end up flashing are mobos, and the good mobos have come with built-in flashing utilities for a few years now.

Oh?

I've got a Gigabyte DS3L mobo and a Samsung S223 DVD Burner I'd like to flash. Best I can tell, both of these have .EXE files to flash them. Am I missing something?

For the DVD burner you're probably out of luck (although I'm left wondering why you're flashing a DVD burner). As for the mobo, look for the section labeled Q-Flash in your manual. It's the mobo's built-in flashing program, you just have to supply it with a BIOS file from a USB drive.

 

[TheStu]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

Originally posted by: scootermaster

Originally posted by: ViRGE
What firmware are you looking to flash? The only thing PC owners usually end up flashing are mobos, and the good mobos have come with built-in flashing utilities for a few years now.

Oh?

I've got a Gigabyte DS3L mobo and a Samsung S223 DVD Burner I'd like to flash. Best I can tell, both of these have .EXE files to flash them. Am I missing something?

For the DVD burner you're probably out of luck (although I'm left wondering why you're flashing a DVD burner). As for the mobo, look for the section labeled Q-Flash in your manual. It's the mobo's built-in flashing program, you just have to supply it with a BIOS file from a USB drive.

Back in the day I flashed a DVD burner to give me dual layer and double speed capabilities that were on a newer, more expensive burner. But that was '04.

 

[vailr]

SH-S223B
SH-S223C
SH-S223F
SH-S223L
SH-S223Q
http://www.station-drivers.com/page/samsung.htm
Taking SH-S223Q as an example:
the file "SH-S223Q_SB03.exe" is a compressed file containing 2 files:
"SH-S223Q_SB03.bin" (the firmware) & "Tsdnwin.exe" (the Windows flasher).
The DOS flasher (can be found via Google search) is: "sfdndosv.exe".
The above mentioned web site has DOS mode flashing instructions, in the sidebar at the right.
You'd need a Windows machine to prepare a bootable USB flash drive, that you'd boot to a DOS prompt, and flash the Samsung firmware.

 

[scootermaster]

Thanks everyone. Totally brainfarted the mobo thing. Flashed it just fine, except the F9 bios did something wonky with the fan, making it louder, so I went back to F7. Too bad.

As for the DVD drive, there are a couple of reasons to flash it, and I'll look into the bootable USB stick thingamagig.

I actually wouldn't mind having a WinXP bootable USB stick. I've got a hackintosh install now (obviously) but I want to rip my CD collection, and people say EAC is still the best for that. I wonder if that'd work...seems like a waste to devote an entire HD to winXP just to rip 200 CDs (and even then it'd be tricky, since I only have 2 HDs...trying to figure out how to store all the stuff on one HD and then somehow retrieve it from my hack when I was done with Windows)