How do you FLASH your mobo bios?

[erikiksaz]

I'm hearing all these stories about failed mobo flashes. They seem to be doing some weird process that i'm not used to. i used to just do this:

go to dos prompt, type format a: /s
throw in the bios files
boot from that floppy, make sure there's only a command.com
and if there's an autoexec, it should fly through the process.

i hear about all this ALT+F2 stuff with these EPoX boards, and i'm wondering, why don't they just do it the oldschool way.

 

[TunaBoo]

Take off clothes, point member at computer.

Oh the other FLASH your bios.

With epox boards, it has the flash util built into the bios. Instead of booting off a floppy, and typing awflash123.exe 123432bios.bin

You just put the bios on any floppy, and hit alt f2 while booting up, and it will do the rest (hit yes a few times).

Saves about 3 minutes for me. Booting off a floppy takes too long. If you have an epox it is just a cool feature

 

[faolan]

I download an EXE, double click, click yes, and watch the system reboot. Once I see the POST again, it's done, and I boot back to Windows 2000.

(I love the Intel D815EEA and it's BIOS flash from Windows feature

 

[SaturnX]

I don't recommend flashing from Windows, if Windows by chance freezes, bang, you now have a big paper weight. If flash the great "old school" way, with a trusty boot disk and a simply .bin file, and in the end all goes well

--Mark

 

[mindiris]

Ya, just don't flash under windows if you are given the option.

Stick it on the boot floppy, and make sure the autoexec.bat has the command in it to flash the bios. You generally want absolutely nothing in the disk besides the minimum required files.

 

[faolan]

I had a feeling the comments would roll in about Windows

It is safe though, because the flash program shuts down Windows before doing the actual flash. So in 2000, I see the shutdown screen, then the normal light blue background with nothing for about 10 seconds. This is when the flash actually occurs, then the reboot happens. Very neat feature, and in my mind, a bit safer then a boot disk, since the actual flash happens much quicker. I've done it twice before, and never saw a problem with it.