Flashing the bios

[David Fletcher]

On Friday 09 October 2009 10:17:56 Ric Moore wrote:
> Does anyone have experience flashing their bios to upgrade it?? Is this
> a dicey proposition using Linux? Inquiring minds want to know. :) Ric

With the Jetway Mini-ITX board I used to build my server I had to find a 
floppy drive to boot FreeDOS. I think I probably used my Linux PC to copy the 
flashing utility and the BIOS image onto the floppy, but it was a couple of 
years back so memory of my method is now hazy.

With my desktop machine (ASUS board) it was easy peasy - just copy the BIOS 
image onto a USB flash drive, get into the BIOS setup screens, insert the 
flash drive and find the flashing utility.

As somebody else said, it's reassuring to have a UPS whilst flashing the BIOS, 
but I think mainboards like mine generally have recovery facilities so you 
can fix it if it goes wrong.

Dave