Flashing bios

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I have the 865 PE NEO 2 MB, a few weeks old. XP Pro SP2

I notice that they allow flashing the bios from windows.

Is this safe?

 

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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:02:44 GMT, John Johnson <change@pacbell.net>
wrote:

| I have the 865 PE NEO 2 MB, a few weeks old. XP Pro SP2
|
| I notice that they allow flashing the bios from windows.
|
| Is this safe?

I stay away from all Windows chipset flash programs!

Better to copy the flash files to a floppy, boot using a Win9x startup
disk, copy the flash files to the virtual drive that will be created,
and then flash from there.

All this assumes your hard drive is formatted NTFS instead of FAT32.
If it's FAT32, you can boot with any DOS startup disk and initiate the
flash from a DOS prompt. The flash files should be stored on your
hard drive in that case. But DOS can't read NTFS, so that's why you
would have to store flash files on the virtual drive if hard drive
formatting isn't FAT32.

Don't ever flash directly from a floppy since there's too much
possibility of failure.

Larc



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Thanks.
I do have NTFS
So now I have three files in a setup directory,
A6728ims.3ao amif;h.exe and msisetup.ext
I copy those to a floppy, boot to DOS, click on the MSIsetup.exe and
it will do that rest?


On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 00:32:39 GMT, Larc <larc-news@jupiterlink.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 18:02:44 GMT, John Johnson <change@pacbell.net>
>wrote:
>
>| I have the 865 PE NEO 2 MB, a few weeks old. XP Pro SP2
>|
>| I notice that they allow flashing the bios from windows.
>|
>| Is this safe?
>
>I stay away from all Windows chipset flash programs!
>
>Better to copy the flash files to a floppy, boot using a Win9x startup
>disk, copy the flash files to the virtual drive that will be created,
>and then flash from there.
>
>All this assumes your hard drive is formatted NTFS instead of FAT32.
>If it's FAT32, you can boot with any DOS startup disk and initiate the
>flash from a DOS prompt. The flash files should be stored on your
>hard drive in that case. But DOS can't read NTFS, so that's why you
>would have to store flash files on the virtual drive if hard drive
>formatting isn't FAT32.
>
>Don't ever flash directly from a floppy since there's too much
>possibility of failure.
>
>Larc
>
>
>
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On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:40:04 GMT, John Johnson <change@pacbell.net>
wrote:

| Thanks.
| I do have NTFS
| So now I have three files in a setup directory,
| A6728ims.3ao amif;h.exe and msisetup.ext
| I copy those to a floppy, boot to DOS, click on the MSIsetup.exe and
| it will do that rest?

Mark gave good, detailed directions. It really takes longer to tell
how to do it than to actually do it. There should be directions in
the .ZIP file containing the flash program and BIOS info to be flashed
(the directions for flashing a non-DOS system such as NTFS is usually
near the end).

After flashing and rebooting, you'll need to go into the CMOS to
change your BIOS settings from default. If you don't know what your
settings are, you may want to review and note them before you flash.

Larc



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