How to flash BIOS without floppy?

[Logan8252]

Hi. How do you flash your BIOS without a floppy drive if your motherboard doesn't have a Windows flash utility and your OS is WinXP (NTFS)? Would this work?

Use Win98SE CD to boot and get into DOS and have awdflash.eve and the .bin on a CD? Could you flash that way? Any help is appreciated.

 

[Insane3D]

Use Win98SE CD to boot and get into DOS and have awdflash.eve and the .bin on a CD? Could you flash that way?

You can do exactly that. It works like a charm. Boot from the Win98 setup CD and choose CDROM support. Once it drops you to the prompt, determine which letter is your CD drive (most likey C: since it won't see the HD if it is NTFS), then switch CD's. Run awdflash and reboot...

 

[LiLxJohnny]

Award Modular BIOS allows you to just put the BIOS Image (bin file) into a floppy disk and at the POST Screen press ALT+F2. From there, I believe it loads an Award Flash utility into memory and then just read the bin file from the disk.

Does that work for you?

 

[bluesky]

Didn't he say he doesn't have a floppy drive?

 

[RideFree]

Didn't he say he doesn't have a floppy drive?

Sounded more like "could it be done this way as opposed to the floppy route".

 

[tcsenter]

Award Modular BIOS allows you to just put the BIOS Image (bin file) into a floppy disk and at the POST Screen press ALT+F2. From there, I believe it loads an Award Flash utility into memory and then just read the bin file from the disk.

Newer Award BIOS, IIRC, v6.00 or later only.

 

[LiLxJohnny]

LoL, oops hehe, could read the title more clearly, can you put the bin file into a CD?

 

[kunderian]

Check out this page. They list a dozen ways to make a bootable CD.

Bootable CD's