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How to Flash BIOS

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ShazK

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Hi all, just built my computer with an Epox EP9NPA+Ultra motherboard and I need to flash the bios (because the current one doesn't prperly support venice cores)...
So, how do I do it? WIndows XP.
 
you can either do it via a floppy or CDR Disk by copying the bin and awardflash.exe to the media and then hitting I believe alt f2 at start...or Epox offers their 'Magic Bios" utility which is on the CD they gave you and you can flash from within windows.

the only thing I suggest is that no matter how you flash, make sure you create a floppy or CDR disk which has a known good bios version on it, the latest one for the 9NPA+Ultra is good but you never know when something can go wrong.

good luck.
 
I would caution against flashing the BIOS within Windows just because of the heightened risk. It's very easy to download the latest BIOS here in a self-extracting .exe format. Double click on the file, and when you are prompted for a directory to write the extracted files to, point it to your floppy drive. Once the files are on the floppy, reboot and press ALT-F2 (I think) during POST (it tells you at the bottom of the screen: DEL to enter setup, ESC for the boot menu, and ALT-F2 to update the BIOS).

Don't touch anything while the BIOS is being written, and if you don't have a UPS, pray you don't have a power outage, because you can kill your motherboard (or at least the BIOS chip)...hence my rationale for not using the Magic Flash utility.
 
Originally posted by: mdubrow
I would caution against flashing the BIOS within Windows just because of the heightened risk. It's very easy to download the latest BIOS here in a self-extracting .exe format. Double click on the file, and when you are prompted for a directory to write the extracted files to, point it to your floppy drive. Once the files are on the floppy, reboot and press ALT-F2 (I think) during POST (it tells you at the bottom of the screen: DEL to enter setup, ESC for the boot menu, and ALT-F2 to update the BIOS).

Don't touch anything while the BIOS is being written, and if you don't have a UPS, pray you don't have a power outage, because you can kill your motherboard (or at least the BIOS chip)...hence my rationale for not using the Magic Flash utility.
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Who in the world would still use a Floppy????

personally I have used both the manual old school method and magic flash...both worked out fine.
 
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