Giving up on Linux...

[Randy Kelsoe]

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Jeff Vian wrote:
>

>> ASUS is the largest main board maker in the world. They provide a BIOS
>> upgrade utility that runs under DOS for every main board we've ever
>> gotten
>> from them. I add the flash utility and the actual BIOS flash file to the
>> floppy and run the flash utility after a clean reboot. That's it.
>>
> I second this.   I have flashed several types of mobos.  Asus, Soyo,
> MSI,  Giabyte, and others.
> Always by booting with a dos floppy then flashing .  I don't recall any
> that can be flashed when the full OS is running.  Some of the
> manufacturers distribute the bios flash as a self booting/flash floppy
> so you don't even need the extra disk.

Gigabyte has the @BIOS utility that runs under windows and flashes the
bios with windows up and running. The update does not take effect until
you power cycle the machine. MSI has a Live Update utility that does the
same thing. I have 2 GigaByte mobos that have the QFlash utility built
into the bios. You power the machine up, go into the BIOS and press F9.
This brings up QFlash, and you insert a floppy with the bios image and
tell Qflash to update the BIOS from the floppy. No booting DOS.
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