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How to properly FLASH your motherboard's BIOS?

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VFAA

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I'm hoping someone can help me. I have an ABIT KT7A V1.3 motherboard and I'd like to flash it to the latest BIOS. I know ABIT's web site used to have a tutorial on how to do it properly but I can't seem to find it now. I'm also running Windows XP Pro. I think I need a blank floppy diskette formatted with some kind of a program on it that will run the BIOS Flash Utility when I restart my PC. The floppy also needs the latest *.exe flash file, in my case it's called kt7s8t.exe. But what program goes on the floppy diskette? Is it awdflash.exe or what?

Thanks,
Help is greatly appreciated 🙂.
 
That's probably the right program. Did you get it from Abit's site? The BIOS file is usually a .bin file. Is that kt7s8t file compressed? If it is extract it first.

Boot the compuer using a boot disk. Do not boot with cd-rom support. You want a very basic boot-up. After you're all booted up, put your disk in there that has your flash utility, the new BIOS file and enough room to make a back-up of your current BIOS.

Run the flash utility. There should be an option to back-up your current BIOS. DO THAT! Then tell it to flash using the file name of the new BIOS. If all goes well, reboot. You'll lose custom settings (memory timings, on-board device settings, etc). So when you reboot, go straight into the BIOS and set it up the way you had it. You may even need to change the FSB setting. That usually gets set back to 100MHz.

Abit doesn't have a Windows based utility? I know MSI and ASUS (maybe others) have windows based flash utilities that work great.
 
Originally posted by: VFAA
I'm hoping someone can help me. I have an ABIT KT7A V1.3 motherboard and I'd like to flash it to the latest BIOS. I know ABIT's web site used to have a tutorial on how to do it properly but I can't seem to find it now. I'm also running Windows XP Pro. I think I need a blank floppy diskette formatted with some kind of a program on it that will run the BIOS Flash Utility when I restart my PC. The floppy also needs the latest *.exe flash file, in my case it's called kt7s8t.exe. But what program goes on the floppy diskette? Is it awdflash.exe or what?

Thanks,
Help is greatly appreciated 🙂.
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Download the BIOS EXE, extract it and read the txt file.

Bios
 
just do not turn your pc off in the middle of flashing, and if you are flashing from floppy make sure you extract the files directly to the floppy drive not to a folder and the move them to the disk! Also do not do this in a thunderstorm! LOL! Also I am not really sure on this but I do think the proper way to flash your bios would be directly from your HD and not from floppy but you would use floppy to boot to prompt! Anyone confirm this?
 
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