William Case wrote: > > But, the manual that came with the motherboard has setup disks etc. The > manual warns to do the setups and BIOS upgrades from a Windows only > operating system. My question is; what do people do who only have a > Linux OS? Are the setup CD's only useful to Window's users? Or, is > that warning only for liability protection? > I believe ASUS still has DOS BIOS upgrade programs. I normally use a DOS boot media to handle this. (OpenDOS should work.) Depending on the system, this may be a floppy, USB drive, or a CDRW. For the CDRW, you have to build a CD image with a Dos boot, and the BIOS update on it as well. The drawback is that you can not save a copy of the old BIOS before updating it. As far as the setup programs, I am not sure what ones you have, but the ones I have run into are only useful for Windows - they do things like install the drivers, or configure the installed drivers. I sort of recall one that would configure things in the BIOS, but you could access the same settings by going into the BIOS setup... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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