Flashing BIOS - Best way?

[warren_1979]

Hi. I want to flash a 2nd hand Dell Vostro I bought recently. The two methods mentioned on the dell website are:

1. Flash using a windows based flashing program - which I don't want to do because I've seen many posts in the MOBO section of people bricking there boards doing windows environment flashes, and

2. Using a floppy drive - which I haven't got.

Is it possible to use a USB flash drive to flash a Dell laptop and how would I go about doing this?

CHeers.

 

[warren_1979]

Ok cheers all. Will try and make a bootable pen drive tonight.

My power cable is really loose in the socket so I will make sure the battery is in as well!