tell me where i'm wrong

[benjamit]

i want to get this right

when flashing a vid card i boot of a floppy that has only the decompressed flash utility from the vid maker and the command.com

the system should only have one vid card in it when i flash the vid card, right?

otherwise will the second vid card can get messed up?

how does the system know that i want to flash the vid card and not the mobo?

 

[Shack70]

right...kinda..i think

To flash a bios to any hardware, you usually dload the zip file(some have flash utility and some dload that seperate).
Then format a floppy like this at a MS-Dos prompt:
format a: /s
the /s copies the system files and makes the floppy bootable.
than unzip the files you dloaded to the floppy.
I recommend you write down what the .bin file is cause most slash utilities ask you to type it in.
then you should get a prompt. Run the flash utility!

How does it know what to flash? The flash utility/bin file is written for spacific hardware. It should know where to look. The flash utility is not a generic app that flashes everything. Ask yourself this, when i flash my MB, why doesn't it try to flash the cd-rom or you video card? Cause it wasn't made to!

 

[rogue1979]

You can simply restart in DOS or boot to DOS with a Windows boot up floppy. After you reach the A:/ simply put in the floppy with the flash utility and the appropriate bios rom file.

 

[benjamit]

thanks guys