Flashing Bios

[NeoStarO1]

Howdy Everyone,


Been a long time since I flashed a bios anyways, I need to flash my kid's computer as its having some issues and need to have them resolved and in the release notes it appears it will fix the problems im having.

Anyways, I have everything downloaded and all and what im wondering is directions for flashing.

Are all flashing directions the same, meaning its not specific from board to board.

Just reboot to cmd and run floppy?

So just want to make sure got all my ducks in a row before i go flashing.

[woodbutcher]

Originally posted by NeoStarO1

Are all flashing directions the same, meaning its not specific from board to board.

Just reboot to cmd and run floppy?

So just want to make sure got all my ducks in a row before i go flashing.

As far as I know but I always look at the boards maufactures site to double check.
The biggest thing that i've been finding lately is the requirement of a specific version of the flash software. Don't know why this a big deal but I use the recommended flash version anyhow.

WB

[NeoStarO1]

Nevermind I finally found intels instructions. They need to make it easier to find.

[Bill in SD, CA]

FLASHING the BIOS

EDIT: Never mind.

Bill

[NeoStarO1]

Thanks woodbutcher, im the same way, i rather find the companies instructions rather than general non specific instructions. I did find them on intels site finally, im printing the instructions.

[NeoStarO1]

Originally posted by Bill in SD, CA
FLASHING the BIOS

EDIT: Never mind.

Bill

nice link, bookmarked it!
and here i am printing out 4 or 5 pages of instructions. lol
thas alright.

Thanks for the much help. I'll be back here if problems arise or i get so nervouse and sweating. LOL

[NeoStarO1]

okay problem!!!!

um i got a stop error so i didn't have much choice other than reset so now what do i do?

[NeoStarO1]

Intels bios doesn't run in dos mode. i need some help here. im read a page here for bios recovery.

towards bottom of this page here

[NeoStarO1]

okay now im having major problems.

I am trying to go through the recovering thingy.

ftp://download.intel.com/support/mot...EA_ENGLISH.PDF

and it says to remove the jumper from J7B1 which is a three pin thingy, well I see J7B1 however it only has 2 pins and there is no jumper on it.

Also when i tried to redo it from dos mode it kept telling me disk is full can not finsish and sticks me back to the a prompt. i have my bootable bois disk.

[NeoStarO1]

Well I don't know what im doing now. Im pretty frusterate. I don't think it even flashed at all. Which would be a good thing. I tried again and again and kept telling me disk is full for the bios thingy. I don't know why its doing that.

So it couldn't read C: drive anymore kept saying invalid drive specification............ So i rebooted with another boot disk and fdisked and then now im formating and i'll put everything onto the C: drive and flash from there I guess???? I don't know.

These flashing directions don't work right expecially with the floppy.

however my bois shows a different bios version now.