Bios flash from a CD

Slime101 · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:43

My mate has a computer which needs a bio update, it has no OS and no floppy drive!!

Can he flash it from CD and if so how?

paradigm · 9 Mar 2006 at 13:53

He can flash yes, but he ***WILL NOT BE ABLE TO BACKUP HIS ORIGINAL***

He will have to aquire a floppy DOS boot disk image file, and then burn that as a bootable CD (from nero is what I use), this will burn a disk that emulates a 1.44MB A:\ floppy (so will boot to a:\), he may also need a disk image editor (iso buster is good) to add the bios flashing utils and BIN to the a:\ image.

Dutch Guy · 9 Mar 2006 at 14:14

Yes, I used a bootable CD-rom to flash my DFI mobo.

What mobo does your mate have?

Street · 9 Mar 2006 at 14:23

Is it possible to flash with a usb memory stick? Always wondered this as I've got no floppy drive in my machine and it would make it easier

Dutch Guy · 9 Mar 2006 at 14:24

Street said:
Is it possible to flash with a usb memory stick? Always wondered this as I've got no floppy drive in my machine and it would make it easier

If you mobo can boot from a USB stick I guess it is possible.