Bios Curiousity!!!

Blackwolf_67

Blackwolf_67

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Hi guys

I have a curious question, ive been told i MAY have to flash my bios of my new system to update it, but just wonderd do u HAVE to have a Floppy drive to do this ?

cheers
 
Most modern motherboards will let you do it off a USB drive, I havent had to use a floppy in quite a few years and that BIOS update was to allow future BIOS updates off USB drives!

Check the motherboards instruction manual.
 
Just looked on the gigabyte site, you probably wont need an update unless you are running a Phenom II X4 955
 
Cheers J.B for looking, fingers crossed all is ok but was curious as i say if u could update the bios without a floppy, but thanks all for answering.

:D
 
icey_haj said:
Don't know if Gigabyte do this, but Asus even allow BIOS updates in Windows. :cool:
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Worst idea ever, nothing that low level should be done in something as high level as Windows.

Ross1234 said:
Dont update your bios unless you have to. It can fail and brick your motherboard.
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You only make that mistake once. Not surprisingly there is a lot of ASUS BIOS chips for sale on ebay!
 
J.B said:
Worst idea ever, nothing that low level should be done in something as high level as Windows.



You only make that mistake once. Not surprisingly there is a lot of ASUS BIOS chips for sale on ebay!
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I've updated my BIOS about 5 or 6 times in Windows using the Asus tool. No problem at all. What's the problem with doing it this way?
 
The Gigabyte boards come with there own built-in flash utility.
Just hit the appropiate key at boot up, point it at the rom file and smile :D
Oh, and NEVER EVER EVER flash a bios in windows E V E R, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmk.
 
mrochester said:
I've updated my BIOS about 5 or 6 times in Windows using the Asus tool. No problem at all. What's the problem with doing it this way?
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J.B. is right - Windows has a multitude of reasons to go ‘t*ts up’ making the BIOS upgrade process in that environment unpredictable - but when you're in a 'low level' environment there is less chance for extraneous **** ups/crashes.
 
Yeh I've read that it's better not to do it in Windows, but I have done it, twice.

*Runs from J.B.*

I had no problems though.
 
J.B said:
Just looked on the gigabyte site, you probably wont need an update unless you are running a Phenom II X4 955
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Is this comment made in relation to oc'ing?

Just built a rig with the 955 BE and the UD4P board out of the box. Have I missed a trick or just fortunate? :confused:
 
BIGBC said:
Just out of interest - how would you screw up a BIOS flash ?
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Install wrong BIOS, crash mid-update, or the one I've done, use a corrupt floppy disk. And of course, if anything screws up the BIOS, it screws up the system that allows your computer to turn on in the first place. The only way to fix it is replace the chip on the motherboard. Or in my case get extremely lucky that the flash program crashed before it started making any changes.

PK!
 
misterPK said:
Install wrong BIOS, crash mid-update, or the one I've done, use a corrupt floppy disk. And of course, if anything screws up the BIOS, it screws up the system that allows your computer to turn on in the first place. The only way to fix it is replace the chip on the motherboard. Or in my case get extremely lucky that the flash program crashed before it started making any changes.

PK!
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Fortunatly all Gigayte boards have 2 x Bios chips incase you kill one it will automaticaly recover itself from the other :D
 
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