How do you flash your bios in windows 2000?

[PointlesS]

ok I'm using an ecs k7s5a board...I wanted to flash my bios to another version....I have the flash utility and the bios...but there's no way to get into dos and flash it...so how do you flash the bios in windows 2000?

 

[HalfCrazy]

It's a very bad ideal to flash the bios within windows. Just use a 'bootup disk' to start the computer and once at the dos prompt. Then flash the bios on the mobo.

 

[BCYL]

I use the win98 boot disk to flash my BIOS when I was running win2k...

 

[Viper GTS]

Go to bootdisk.com and grab their Dr Dos bootdisk, it works great.



Viper GTS

 

[Goi]

I was in exactly the same situation as you are in now, just a week ago. I wanted to flash my K7S5A to the newest cheepobios to get the 143/147MHz FSB speeds, but I had another problem - my FDD turned out to be dead, so I had to create a bootable CD-R instead. Anyway, turns out that once I did that it my HDD couldn't be access, even though both the bootable CD and the HDD were in FAT/FAT32 format rather than NTFS. So what I did was put the flash rom file, along with the flash executable, within the same bootable CD, and it worked after numerous attempts. I'm still wondering why my HDD couldn't be accessed(tried both DrDOS 7.0 and MS Dos 6.22 bootdisks/bootable CD-R's from bootdisk.com, but oh well, what I did worked and now I'm running my Athlon T-bird 1.4 at 143MHz FSB, up from 138MHz