Re: How do you update your BIOS?
If the BIOS of a motherboard has a built-in flash utility (and all of my current boards do), I just load the new BIOS image off a USB stick. Otherwise I'd just put FreeDOS or something on a USB stick, and copy the motherboard manufacturers flasher and bios image, and do it that way.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
I get my butler to do it. He burns every new bit in with a laser chisel..
Seriously, the Windows BIOS flashing tools are pretty damn reliable these days. Failing that, bootable CD or floppy.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
Floppy drives, do people still actually have them? ;)
I flash from within the OS GUI if the manufacturer has a utility to do so, have done for several years and never experienced a problem. Otherwise I whip out my bootable USB drive and flash from a minimal DOS boot.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
Floppy disk with plenty of sweaty palms and swearing in the vain hop that I don't screw it up!
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
I usually do it from within Windows. The last few systems I've build have been Gigabyte though, and they have dual BIOSs, so I feel pretty safe flashing them.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
Abit flash utility.
I do not even own a floppy drive.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
I just did mine over the weekend with a USB Floppy drive, a Windows 98 boot disk and the Floppy that had the RAID drivers on that came with the motherboard....but then again I'm not that elegant when it comes to Computer stuff...lol
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
I did my new i5 mobo over the weekend, everything i had tried to update it from within windows or the inbios flashing tool seemed to throw up errors or just plain refused to do it :censored:, so i asked on the msi forums :help: and some mod on there pointed me towards a util they recommend on there which created a bootable usb stick complete with the bios (downloaded seperately which i already had anyway) and memtest (run before flashing just in case) once i had created that i booted from the usb stick, followed a couple of instructions and 2 mins later i was booting with the latest bios, 1.3, a big step up from the 1.0 it shipped with :surrender:.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
In windows. Never had a problem with it though in a past life I did once remove a BIOS chip (EEPROM) after a bad flash (wrong image IIRC) and stuck it in another motherboard to flash it with a good image - which meant that the 2nd PC had to be booted up at the time so I could I remove its original chip and stick the foreign one in to flash it. Compared to doing that kind of thing a normal update in windows is a bit so what.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
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Domestic_Ginger
USB stick and motherboard utility.
same here, it should be a poll option tbh
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
Turns out you can't really update a bios from windows when running a 64bit edition.
PITA that one.
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
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GheeTsar
I use the @Bios tool that came with the mobo. It's worked both times I've used it no problems.
+1 for the @Bios tool, easyyyyyyyy as Load bin and hit flashhh !
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Turns out you can't really update a bios from windows when running a 64bit edition.
PITA that one.
64bit of ?
Ive successfully flashed within 64bit XP Pro. Gigabyte P35 DQ6
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
i just do it in the os.... it did crash during once but it still booted up misteriously. I couldnt get into bios to adjust anything but i managed to do another update once booted into windows. I was extremely lucky!
Re: How do you update your BIOS?
Right, I'm the luddite.
Simple answer: I don't
That's it. I don't bother. But then, I'm getting old now, and have stopped tinkering. I'm totally out of step with these tri core processors and gaming what nots, and concentrating more on my server.