Updating BIOS

[lsamorph2]

Sorry for the lame question. I have never updated a bios before. What program or utility do you use? Or any instructions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[bruceb]

The information as to how to do it will be included when you go to the motherboard or computer
makers site for the latest BIOS .. most times, it goes on a Floppy and runs when you reboot the
pc .. sometimes, you can put it on a Bootable CD and it does the same thing .. some versions do
the update from within Windows, but it is usually safer the other ways

Instructions should be at the site you get the BIOS file from

 

[WildHorse]

Xavier

Please post your motherboard brand and model.
Please advise your bios name, such as AwardBIOS, or AMI, or Phoenix, or other name.
Also, do you have a floppy drive installed?

There are some flashing aids for particular motherboard/chipset combinations that might help you, depending on what you have.

Here are some ONLY GENERAL things to think about until you reply:
* Before flashing, make a backup copy of your present bios.
* Boot into your old bios and set everything to the default values.
* Don't flash from Windows with WINFLASH
* If your computer has a floppy drive then in general, you'll take a blank floppy disk, make it bootable, and put the NEW bios file and a flashing utility onto the floppy disk.
Then you'll boot to DOS prompt, and enter a command that runs the flashing utility. The command you enter will include some switches. All this can be explained in detail after you reply.
* Then you boot up to see if it worked.
* After success, you again boot into your new bios and tweak settings to your preferences.