NEVER USE WINFLASH TO FLASH YOUR BIOS

If your OS is that unstable you have bigger issues.

pfft

It's common knowledge and sense not to flash from Windows. People like the OP make the mistake and post about it so that other people don't have to make the same costly mistake. If you'd rather ignore the OP's advice and make the mistake for yourself then that's fine, just don't go confusing the issue for others by blaming the stability of the OP's OS.



yup
 
I've used winflash in the past and never had any issues....

I now use the built in ezupdate thing thats on my asus board to upgrade the bios so much easier :)
 
It's common knowledge and sense not to flash from Windows. People like the OP make the mistake and post about it so that other people don't have to make the same costly mistake. If you'd rather ignore the OP's advice and make the mistake for yourself then that's fine, just don't go confusing the issue for others by blaming the stability of the OP's OS.

News to me, and if it was that bad why do they keep giving us the option to flash from windows.

Sorry, but I've not used anything other than a windows based flash utility for years unless there is none and have never ever had any issues.
 
Even Asus warn against this on their downloads page when you DL the BOIS - they have had masses of complaints, and no doubt costs, after the amount of RMAd dead mobos :S
 
I just find it bizarre that you couldn't of read about it somewhere on the net over the years.

Agreed, which is why I find it hard to believe it's as common as being stated in this thread as I've been hanging out in hardware forums for a fair number of years now, either that or my brain has been selectively filtering it from me :eek:
 
I used it, broke my bios and had to do it again via floppy.
Lucky you were able to, sometimes it will cause a borking that isn't that simple to fix o_O. Yeah the general theme seems to be to avoid flashing Windows, regardless of how stable your OS is running its always a better choice to do it the DOS way. That said bios upgrades within bios seem alright, Asus EZFlash has served me well. With 2mb+ bios you can't really use floppies anyway.
 
I've never lost a board to a windows flash and i can guarantee i've flashed more mobos than 99.99% of this forum :p The one thing i make sure is to go to slackest settings on memory etc.. and go back to stock speeds before flashing. The only time in recent memory is a MSI board that was unstable anyhow that froze during a flash, floppy method on boot recovered it though i later trashed it for being incompatiable with most of the memory i was using at the time. For one offs i usually do a dos or direct in-bios flash but for bigger jobs a windows flash is easier.
 
Flashed the BIOS on my DS3 from Windows after downloading the very latest version of the Gigabyte flashing utility. Turned out that the program wasn't compatible with Vista, and crashed halfway through writing the BIOS. System was still running but knew that I couldn't restart until I'd flashed properly or the mobo would be borked. Fortunately a much older version of the flashing program worked - go figure!
 
I used the evga windows flash without any trouble on my old 680i, cant say the same for asus update as i managed to kill an s939 a8nsli deluxe using i. Wouldnt go near asus update with my current board.
 
I've used the Asus Flash utility with no problems on my current board, but listening to all this I'll be back to the old method in the future.
 
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