is it possible to flash a bios without a floppy drive?

[song414]

Here is the deal my floppy drive died and i want to flash my bios. What i was thinking is making a bootable cd rom instead of a bootable floppy and put the bios software on there. But how do i do that? Is it possible to flash the bios doing that?

 

[CraKaJaX]

I've heard it's been done on a flash drive...not sure how though. Google came up with this

 

[Penth]

you can boot from both CD-R and probably USB drives, depending on your motherboard and usb drive model.

 

[stevty2889]

I've done it from a CD before, I used a CD-RW, but I used an old windows 98 CD to boot from first. But there are several programs that allow you to make CD's bootable, I think Nero can do it.

 

[iRONic]

What motherboard are you trying to update?

 

[CraKaJaX]

Originally posted by: stevty2889
I've done it from a CD before, I used a CD-RW, but I used an old windows 98 CD to boot from first. But there are several programs that allow you to make CD's bootable, I think Nero can do it.

Nero does it for sure.

 

[Unkno]

you could flash it inside windows...that's what i do

 

[Gagan]

Originally posted by: Unkno
you could flash it inside windows...that's what i do

Unfortunately DFI likes to make things a tad little more difficult

 

[xbassman]

My mobo in my htpc requires a floppy flash as well.
Since I don't have a floppy I used a bootable CD.

I think this is the one......

Bart's way to create bootable CD-Roms (for Windows/Dos)

 

[zephyrprime]

There are come utilities that allow you to make a bootable USB drive. Just use that and copy the necessary files onto the drive.