BIOS UPDATE

[owls]

I have the ECS PN2 SLI2+ motherboard with a e6600,Bios is ver P23
I want to update the bios to P25 but am not sure how to do this.I have been to the ECS website and downloaded the bios update which consists of 2 files.One a bin file the other is a dos app "NVFLSHSC".There are no instructions on what to do next,i suspect it boots from a floppy.Is there a way to update from windows?
Any help would be forthcoming.

 

[CaDLoN]

Not sure weather ECS do a win util for updating the BIOS.
But if you've got those 2 file the easiest thing to do would be to...

• Create boot disk in XP
• Copy BIOS files onto disk
• Boot off it
• Run NVFLSHSC and see what it tells you

at that point you'll either have a little util tell you what to do or it should tell ya the full command line you need to type in

 

[WJA96]

It's MUCH safer to boot the BIOS update off a floppy. Windows is a relatively unstable platform compared to DOS. And in Windows you might be tempted to do something else while the BIOS is being written. In DOS, you can't do that.