-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Vian wrote: > >> ASUS is the largest main board maker in the world. They provide a BIOS >> upgrade utility that runs under DOS for every main board we've ever >> gotten >> from them. I add the flash utility and the actual BIOS flash file to the >> floppy and run the flash utility after a clean reboot. That's it. >> > I second this. I have flashed several types of mobos. Asus, Soyo, > MSI, Giabyte, and others. > Always by booting with a dos floppy then flashing . I don't recall any > that can be flashed when the full OS is running. Some of the > manufacturers distribute the bios flash as a self booting/flash floppy > so you don't even need the extra disk. Gigabyte has the @BIOS utility that runs under windows and flashes the bios with windows up and running. The update does not take effect until you power cycle the machine. MSI has a Live Update utility that does the same thing. I have 2 GigaByte mobos that have the QFlash utility built into the bios. You power the machine up, go into the BIOS and press F9. This brings up QFlash, and you insert a floppy with the bios image and tell Qflash to update the BIOS from the floppy. No booting DOS. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFAOSRIL6ubqSVs8LERAgO+AKCgDyV/T3v1+TF/GSH59521xMisPACfQGpR mUloUGbOJaohVRLJbCZFwc4= =0VCp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
