How to flash bios w/o Floppy

[DeludedBuzz]

Have an IS7 mobo, would like to flash the BIOS to 13, but I don't have a floppy drive. Anyway to do this w/o adding a floppy drive?

 

[Sabreguy]

Well this method requires you to have a CD-burner, just burn the bios file on a CD-RW, boot fomr the CD-rom and flash it from there.

You can set the boot sequence in the bios, and use the Windows CD to boot to command prompt.

(I'm not sure if the XP cd can do this, I know at least 95 and 98 discs can boot to dos.)

 

[Gerbil333]

So I pulled the floppy drive from my other computer last week and ended up scratching the top of my black, aluminum Chieftec tower with it to flash to the latest BIOS when I could have just made a bootable CD!? Grrr...at least the scratches aren't that bad.

 

[bawaji]

Nero (http://www.nero.com/) can create a boot cd. However, it requires a boot image either on a floppy or as a CD image file (*.img or *.ima format, (may work with *.iso format?)) on the harddrive if you are running Windows XP (and probably Windows 2000 too). Does anyone know where we can download an image file for this purpose? Roxio Easy CD Creator should also have the functionality to burn bootable CDs.

One possible option: (Haven't tried it but worth a shot)
FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org/) has ISO files for FreeDOS operating system which can be burnt on a CD. Hence, this CD can be used to boot to DOS. After booting to DOS, another CD with the BIOS file on it can be used to flash the BIOS. This should work, as long as FreeDOS can recognize the CD drive.