View Poll Results: Your preferred method of BIOS update

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  • Floppy Disk

    8 21.62%
  • CD/DVD/USB drive (DOS)

    7 18.92%
  • Bootable ISO

    2 5.41%
  • Bootable USB

    11 29.73%
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Thread: How do you update your BIOS?

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    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.
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    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.

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    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.
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    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!

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    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.

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    Re: How do you update your BIOS?

    Abit flash utility.

    I do not even own a floppy drive.

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    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

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    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 , so i asked on the msi forums 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 .
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    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.

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    Re: How do you update your BIOS?

    Quote Originally Posted by Domestic_Ginger View Post
    USB stick and motherboard utility.
    same here, it should be a poll option tbh

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    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.

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    Re: How do you update your BIOS?

    Quote Originally Posted by GheeTsar View Post
    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 !

    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

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    Re: How do you update your BIOS?

    USB through BIOS.

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    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!

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    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.
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