BIOS update using USB stick

[bryn]

In this article Toms Hardware use a USB flash stick to update the motherboard BIOS. They say they have made it bootable using the HP utility here.

Couple of questions:
- would that HP utility work with any brand of USB stick?
- how would the BIOS update usually be done - would it be an .exe file that has to be run from a command prompt?

You can see I am out of my depth

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Bryn

 

[bryn]

Thanks for the reply Mr O. Any thoughts on the HP utility and its general applicability ( or not) ?

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[bryn]

Thanks.

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Bryn