Vechlor 0 Posted June 3, 2000 Anyone know how I'm supposed to flash my Abit BP6 BIOS without a floppy drive or DOS installed? I hope someone can figure this one out Share this post Link to post
Greggy 0 Posted June 3, 2000 Providing you can dual boot to Windoze 95/8 its not a problem. Just download the latest bios to say C:\BIOS directory. Restart PC, choose Windows 95/8, press F8, and choose safe mode command prompt only as the start option. From the C: prompt CD to your BIOS directory and FLASH to your hearts content... I have always used that method with 100% success rate on my second PC (Abit BP6 with dual Celerons 366's at 550/100, Win 98/2000) Otherwise get a mate to lend you a floppy drive and a DOS boot disk. Share this post Link to post
Damien 0 Posted June 3, 2000 This is a significant issue with machines that only run NT. It would be nice is Microsoft could include an option to boot to a Dos prompt in their NT startup menu. This doesn't need to be anything too elaborate, just a dos prompt from Ms Dos 6.22 or later. Share this post Link to post
CM 1 Posted June 3, 2000 Not sure for Award bios but AMI´s latest bios comes with a buildin flash option. Just hit a special key during the startup and insert the disk with the bios image. Share this post Link to post
Vechlor 0 Posted June 3, 2000 Greggy, I’m running Win2K using a NTFS partition. I will ask one of my friends if they have an extra floppy drive so I don’t have to install DOS or Win 98 just to flash my BIOS. Damien, I totally agree with you. Microsoft should have included a built-in version of DOS 6.22 (REAL DOS MODE), so I could easily flash my BIOS anytime and play those old DOS games again. I kind of miss the world of DOOM & DUKE3D, don’t you? CM, Sound like a nice feature, but I have no floppy drive yet Share this post Link to post
