Question regarding BIOS flashing on a Gigabyte MB

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Just bought a
AMD Athlon II X3 445
Gigabyte GA-MA78LMT-US2H 760G

I have been looking on the Gigabyte website and it appears no matter what revision the board is i will have to flash the BIOS,

I have not done this for years, last one was a Socket A Gigabyte board.
As far as i remember it was just a case of downloading the BIOS, putting the 3 files onto a Floppy and then simply boot into the BIOS and do it from within there.

I did a quick Google but loads of people are saying that you have to make a floppy a DOS bootable disk, or to use a USB drive to do it, even using the Gigabyte @BIOS update tool and do it from within the Windows environment.

I obviously want an easy way to do it, and of course do not want to toast my MB in the process.

Bear in mind i do not have a floppy or a USB flash drive,
(i have 2x 16GB SDHC`s and a USB card reader but this damn thing NEVER works in Win7 (maybe 1 in 10 times it will actually get recognised by Windows)
so i will not be trying this route :p

Any advice please :)

*EDIT*
i can of course get a floppy/USB drive from a friend
 
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Flashing is easy.

Simply put your downloaded bios on a USB stick. You should have one of those. :) Connect your USB drive to the mobo.

Press power.

Press 'end' during the bios post. Or if you prefer del and get into the BIOS options, and once there select the QFlash option F8.

Once you are in the utility, it is a simple matter to navigate to the folder on your USB drive where you have stored the bios file.

Select the file.
The utility will read it and give it the OK or tell you it is not suitable.
Once you get the go ahead, simple flash the bios.

The system will reboot and you are done.

Simples
 
Cheers mate,
Do i need to set the boot order to reflect using a USB device?
And i have read you need to make the USB drive DOS bootable, is this true? Or can i just throw the BIOS etc onto the Root of the drive and it will be visible in the BIOS when trying to flash?
 
No just pop the USB drive in the board when powered off.

Once you power on do as I suggested.

That is it.

Things are really easy these days.
 
Looking good as is.

you only update bios if something is broke.

Or if you are nuts like me.
 
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