Bios update question?

[andyjz]

I bought a MSI K7TPro Motherboard on 10/20/00. I checked the bios version on the top of the screen durring startup and it said V2.2 W6330MS. I then when the the msi website to look for an upgrade. The site shows that version 2.2 was put out on 1/11/01 so how can I have this version? Here is the link: Bios page
Here is the general MSI bios page: MSI bios update page

thanks

 

[Basse]

It is not unusual for manufacturers to ship boards with a newer BIOS version than that on their web.

/B

 

[andyjz]

Thanks, I have never flashed my bios before but have been having problems that I just cant seem to fix. I have avoided flashing the bios because I've heard that if something happens durring the process your MB is junk. I followed the instrudtions on the website and have a disk made that is a little different that what there page says but I think its right. On the second link I have there is a like to a Boot recovery feature. I believe steps 1 and 2 are what I have already done but I don't understand the next step. Could you help me out.

For Award BIOS:

Make a bootable floopy disk
Copy the Award flash utility & BIOS file to the said floppy disk
Create an autoexec.bat with "awdfl535 biosfilename" in the content e.g. awdfl535 a619mj21.bin
Boot up system with the said floppy (it will take less than 2 minutes before screen comes out)
Re-flash the BIOS & reboot.

 

[pugh]

i have flashed my msi k7t pro over 4-5 times and no probs at all.i used the windows flash 3 times and did it with a floppy the other times.just use a floppy and follow the instuctions .you should be ok..

 

[andyjz]

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[obenton]

Run the flash from autoexec.bat and you'll see nothing on your screen while the BIOS is being flashed, so you won't really know when it's done and when, therefore, it's safe to reboot. I usually give it about 5 minutes when doing it this way. Running from autoexec.bat will sometimes recover from a bad flash if the first few BIOS sectors are still intact. But it's not really necessary to do it this way. Running it from the DOS command prompt works well. The best security, against a bad flash, is to have the computer connected to a UPS.