Need advice on flashing a BIOS

[Kentucky Fisherman]

I realize this is kindergarten stuff, folks, but it's my first time, so be gentle, OK? <G>

About three years ago I built a system with an FIC PA-2013 mobo and an AMD K6-2/350 CPU with 128 meg of PC100 memory, a nice system at the time. This is my home system and it handles most of my needs quite nicely, so I decided rather than spending several hundred bucks for a chip/mobo upgrade, I'd just bump the CPU to a K6-2/500, which only cost me about $50.

Before I swap the chips I'd like to flash the BIOS to the latest version, but I don't want to screw things up. I'm sure there are BIOS flash instructions on the FIC website, but I'm turning to you folks for a pointer to the BEST instructions. Can you give me a hand?

Thanks!
PS. If anyone is interested in buying the old K6-2/350, it's a STEP unit with their proprietary Peltier cooler/fan bonded on. I'll price it right and make it available as soon as the new chip proves stable.

 

[Fardringle]

If you haven't already purchased the K6-2 500 (or if it's possible to return it) you can get a K6-3+ 500 for about $50 from several different vendors (I got mine from TigerDirect) and easily run it at 600Mhz which will FAR out-perform any K6-2. In fact, the K6-3+ will be much faster than the K6-2 even at 450Mhz...

 

[Plester]

as far as the flashing goes, each flash writer and manufacturer are different, so i would definitely go to the FIC site. general rule of thumb for safety is to make a bootable floppy with the new bios file and the flash writer on it. before flashing go into the bios and 'load defaults' then make sure the basics are correct, i.e. cpu speed, boot sequence - a,c, whatever. then save out of the bios, and boot from the floppy and flash from the A:\.