Flashing bios with uguru

[DaveNC]

hello all, first post and greeting from the States.

As the uabit forum won't send out confirmation emails, I am coming here for help.

I have a new build, see specs below, and am about ready to install the OS. My question is in regards to bios updates. I do not plan, right away, to OC my board and wondered if it was safe to use the Uguru program to flash my bios. I have read that a lot of you warn against it, but aren't most of you overclocking your boards? I wondered if a stock board was safer to flash than a modded one.

I do have a floppy drive that I pulled from an old, old computer, so I can create a disk and flash from there, but it seems much easier to use the flash program in Uguru. I have a Dell laptop and I have successfully flashed from windows and my old Asus board flashed from Windows with ease.

Just looking for some thoughts, not flames. Thanks.
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3850 1GB 256-bit
NZXT TEMPEST ATX Mid Tower Case
2 Western Digital Caviar 320GB SATA
ABIT IX38 Quad GT Motherboard
Artic Cooler 7 Pro CPU cooler
E8400 Wolfdale
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) PC2 8500
BFG Tech 680W Power Supply

[Betty_Swallocks]

If you're not happy about flashing the bios in Windows (and I know a lot of people aren't) you could always get a small USB stick and boot up from that rather than faffing about with floppies.
You can get a small stick for pennies these days and even a 64Mb one would do the job with acres of room to spare.

[DaveNC]

I have no idea what the flashing from windows would do, I was going to try it before I start loading the other software I need to load. Of course, if it kills my board....ugh, just seems like it should work, doesn't it?

[Lvcoyote]

There are too many variables that can cause a bad flash, especially if its a new build. Complete system stability is a must or your asking for trouble. My suggestion would be to use the floppy. There is a link in my signature with a step by step guide....GL!

[BUFF]

whilst FlashMenu should work it's inherently more risky flashing in Windows than in DOS.
Nobody should flash with an overclock either way, that's simply adding to the risk.

[DaveNC]

I'm going to try the flash drive method, get the bios updated before installing the OS. Like I said, I have a floppy drive, but I don't think I have any floppies, have to look. The thumb drive looks easy.

[DaveNC]

decided to keep the old bios for now

[DaveNC]

got another issue, I'll start a new thread