NEVER USE WINFLASH TO FLASH YOUR BIOS
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me too, but after reading so many horror stories, i use the dos flashers only now
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.
Then you must live under a rock tbh.
Nope, just never had an issue so have never looked into it.
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ive used winflash loads on my abit fpin9 and also on my prior boards with nbo problems. i would never do it if i felt my system unstable though or likely to BSOD...
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
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.
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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 
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.
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!