Do i need a floppy to flash bios?

[General_Chris]

hey people do i need a floppy to flash a bios can someone explain me how to flash a bios as its neccesary cant i just run it of a CD or something??

 

[Rastalovich]

CD should work ok. I use any old 512m usb pen thingy. Using a HP format tool.

 

[PV5150]

Nope you don't need a floppy. Like Rast, I just use my USB flash drive

 

[llwyd]

MS-Dos a USB pen and stick the file on there. Boot from it and run it that way

Or use a CD

 

[Ghosthud1]

doesnt winflash work well?

flash from in the OS

 

[BUFF]

it's inherently riskier flashing in Windows, safer via DOS.

 

[Ghosthud1]

very true, but yet if theres no over way try that

 

[equk]

Some mobo's have the option to flash on the mobo, think mine says press f10 for flash menu or something on startup (takes the bios from usb mass storage). I just did that to flash my current mobo.

Or just make a bootable usb stick

Or disable antivirus and flash from windows

 

[AntiHeroUK]

Yes equk, most recent Gigabyte boards have this feature. If memory serves me right it's called Qflash.

 

[doug2507]

Windows flash is defo not a good idea. Loads of folks that have used this metheod have screwed things up and run into all sorts of probs. Personally, i just download an .iso of the bios, burn to cd, then in my bios during post, i have the options of del for bios, esc for boot and alt+f2 for flash...Obvious one here then select the .bin file from disc if it doesnt do it automatically. p.s. make sure you're system is stable 1st as if it hangs during flash, its a new bios chip.....