Update BIOS on Gigabyte K8NS Ultra-939?

[Robert L Cochran]

I always do install a floppy drive specifically to flash BIOS updates.

They are cheap these days. Buy one used.

Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, MD

Doug Stewart wrote:

> Howdy all:
> Has anyone been able to successfully update the BIOS on a GB K8NS 
> Ultra-939? It seems to require either 1) an install of Win32 or 2) a 
> regular floppy drive, neither of which I am "blessed" with.
>
> I've tried creating a boot cd using old Dos 6.22 images from 
> bootdisk.com, but this doesn't work - the .exe whines about it not 
> being a Win32 environment. While the mobo seems to support USB floppy 
> drives as valid boot devices, the in-BIOS flash utility can't seem to 
> see them.
>
> Any ideas? Gigabyte's website is of absolutely no help.