• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Flashing bios - no floppy.

wnb

wnb

wnb

Soldato
Joined
27 Feb 2004
Posts
3,983
I have the IP35 pro mb and I need to flash the bios so the mb supports a cpu I am going to buy. Abit says that I need to flash it with a floppy:( its been donkies years since I've had a floppy is their any other way of doing it?
 
wnb said:
I have the IP35 pro mb and I need to flash the bios so the mb supports a cpu I am going to buy. Abit says that I need to flash it with a floppy:( its been donkies years since I've had a floppy is their any other way of doing it?
Click to expand...

Use Flashmenu, possibly, not sure if it supports the IP35 as Abit's USA site isn't working.
 
Does Abit not do one of those nice little windows apps that automatically finds the latest BIOS, downloads, and installs? Thought those had been around for years now :)
 
kitfit1 said:
^^ This

If you don't know how to do it, have a good read of this. It's very straight forward, much faster than using a floppy and much safer as well.
Click to expand...

Within the first three steps it asks for to insert a floppy disk? Thats not really getting around his specific problem!

Unless I read something wrong :D
 
eddiew said:
Does Abit not do one of those nice little windows apps that automatically finds the latest BIOS, downloads, and installs? Thought those had been around for years now :)
Click to expand...

If the application screws up or crashes, it leaves the board with an incomplete BIOS flash and kills the board. Chances are you will not be covered by warranty and will have to resort to blind flashing or hot flashing, or just get a new board :(
 
samurl said:
Within the first three steps it asks for to insert a floppy disk? Thats not really getting around his specific problem!

Unless I read something wrong :D
Click to expand...

You read it right, it was written quite a few years ago ;)
But as gareth170 has said, all that you have to do is download the DOS files. First result from a google will get them ;)
 
Senture said:
If the application screws up or crashes, it leaves the board with an incomplete BIOS flash and kills the board. Chances are you will not be covered by warranty and will have to resort to blind flashing or hot flashing, or just get a new board :(
Click to expand...

And you trust DOS off a floppy to do this but not Windows off your hard drive?

...I'll take Windows, although I do turn off all overclocks before I flash. Never had a bad one yet :)
 
eddiew said:
And you trust DOS off a floppy to do this but not Windows off your hard drive?

...I'll take Windows, although I do turn off all overclocks before I flash. Never had a bad one yet :)
Click to expand...

@eddiew, forums all over the net are full of peeps that have had bad or incomplete flashes using software in Windows. This is recoverable if the mobo has a removable bios chip. But if it's a soldered chip the result is a dead mobo.

Also most Windows based flashing apps, do not work properly when using Win7 64. They have to be run from Vista 32 or XP 32. This is particularly so when using Winflash, which is the most common app.
 
eddiew said:
And you trust DOS off a floppy to do this but not Windows off your hard drive?

...I'll take Windows, although I do turn off all overclocks before I flash. Never had a bad one yet :)
Click to expand...
lol....

dos doesn't crash , once your in dos nothing can go wrong.. ... windows can/could, crash or freeze
 
Last edited:
I'll stand by my DOS days being thoroughly over unless a windows flash program simply won't run. I burnt out on SCSI and audio drivers back in 1999 :P

But no, DOS doesn't crash; but nor does my Windows install randomly bomb out unless I'm overclocking/stress testing at the time. With nowt but the flash application running, never once had a problem :)
 
Thanks to Windows flash gone seriously wrong = me always using DOS unless where I have no choice as is the case with laptops. If must flash in Windows, I disable most apps especially AV & disconnect the machine from net, etc.

IMO DOS is bulletproof since hardly anything running.
 
eddiew...

afew years ago i flashed a motherboard within windows and the app just froze half way doing it which killed the motherboard after reboot. the board had a recovery bios system but that never worked..

tbh it's not worth taking a chance
 
Last edited:
Lol, look all right, each to their own. Some of us have bad experiences with one or the other, and thus a preference; I'll leave it at that :)
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom