On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > >accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the > >procedure. > > Most bios these days are equipt to do that themselves from one of the more > right hand option menu's. I have updated the bios on this asus motherboard > several times now, by putting the new bios file on a usbkey & plugging it in. > > It will muddle along looking the system over for a while but its never failed > to find it. It is also capable of saving the old bios back to that same key > before you install the new one too. > > -- I don't understand you procedure. The BIOS file I downloaded is an .EXE file. When I put on a usb drive and i insert it. It just sits there. If I try to execute it it says it is looking for a zip file and can't find it. What am I missing? What right hand menus are you talking about > -- ======================================================================= On the eighth day, God created FORTRAN. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines