Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[Ian Malone]

Gilboa Davara wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-01-22 at 17:26 +0000, Ian Malone wrote:
> 
>>Gilboa Davara wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>HUH?
>>>I just updated my new K8NS BIOS and it requires the same old (Free)DOS
>>>boot.
>>>They just help you by giving you a default autoexec.bat file, saving you
>>>the need to remember the flash command line options. (And BIOS image
>>>name).
>>>
>>>Gilboa
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Well, it's on my now elderly GA7 DXE (socket A), a bios based update
>>called Q-Flash. From the manual:
>>
>>A. What is Q-Flash Utility?
>>Q-Flash utility is a pre-O.S BIOS flash utility enables users to
>>update its BIOS within BIOS mode, no more fooling around any OS.
>>(sic)
>>
>>The previous motherboard to that was an almost identical GA7 DX+,
>>which had to be replaced after attempting to remove a northbridge
>>heatsink which I thought was bounded with epoxy but was actually
>>thermal tape[1]. Maybe they've stopped using it?
>>
>>[1] For anyone thinking of trying this; if it's thermal tape,
>>twisting will get it off. Try that /first/.
>>-- 
>>imalone ♘
>>
> 
> 
> Umm...
> 
> I just checked my GA7N400L and it uses the same DOS aflash utility.
> It's logical to assume that the flash utility depends on the maker of
> the BIOS.
> All newer Gigabyte boards seem to use Award BIOS' which forces them to
> use the same flash.exe DOS utility for BIOS upgrades.
> 

Interesting, the manual claims it does Q-Flash (although the manual from
the giga-byte website is for the 7n400pro2, but the only feature
difference bios-wise is supposedly a dual bios in the pro version
(page number 71, page 75 of the pdf).

-- 
imalone ♘