On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 01:18 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 23:19 -0400, 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've yet to see motherboard setup discs have anything other than Windows > files on them. If you're lucky, you can boot from a CD or floppy to > update a BIOS, and don't have to have Windows installed. > > And if you're really lucky, there's a BIOS option that you can use to > update from any media. Just like you can press DEL to enter the BIOS > while starting up the PC, some have other keys to manage updating the > BIOS in the same way. You press a button and provide a BIOS file in > some place that it expects. > > For what it's worth, the discs that come with motherboards are often > quite old by the time you get them. You're probably best looking at the > manufacturer's website for the latest files. > > BIOS updates update the BIOS on the motherboard, and they're useful to > you, no matter what OS you use. But drivers for the on-board hardware > (IDE, sound, etc.), are for the Windows OS, they update files within > Windows, they don't do anything to the hardware. So you can ignore > them. > > -- I had a similar problem of updating the BIOS of a Shuttle SD39P2 without floppy/windows physical machine. My solution was to use a memory stick and a vmware virtual machine running windows2k. Details available if of any interest. John
