Is there a way to flash the bios on my mobo (See sig) without a floppy? I dont have one and I dont want to get one just for that. ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE 2500+ Barton OC to 3200+ 1gig Corsair XMS Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb Antec True Power 430w Dual 40gig WD.

Disd you check the cd that came with your Mother board. On there you will find a windows utility for flashing the bios. I was under the impresson that you would have seen that on cd when loading the drivers, and it laso has a reference to it in your MOBO manual. ALWAYS read your MOBO manual. Hope that helps Regards IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT

I'll have to check that. It's been a while since I loaded the drivers, so I dont remember. Thanks for the info. ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE 2500+ Barton OC to 3200+ 1gig Corsair XMS Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb Antec True Power 430w Dual 40gig WD.

It's not obvious how a "windows" BIOS flash would work, since you're using XP, which will "not allow direct access to hardware." I'll stay tuned. M2

I'm at work so I cant test it but I just happend to have my mobo user guide here and I saw it does have the utility to update from windows. I'll try it tomorrow and let you all know how it went. ASUS A7N8X-E DELUXE 2500+ Barton OC to 3200+ 1gig Corsair XMS Hightech Excalibur Radeon 9800 Pro Iceq 128mb Antec True Power 430w Dual 40gig WD.

A lot of the more recent Asus & MSI boards have a Windows based BIOS update facility which lets you automatically download the most recent BIOS & then does it all for you - rebooting to 'DOS' etc. The ones I've done have all been successful & very easy, they also have inbuilt recovery systems should something go wrong - power outage or whatever. Makes other floppy based BIOS updates look archaic by comparison. "I know that I'm mad - I've always been mad..."

I agree with johnR I have used this facility a number of times to update a bios where the OS has been installed. I personaly prefer the bios to be fully up to date when laoding the oS for the very first time, but bios updates can some times be more than one and released after the os has been loaded. The utility whicch most of the MOBO manufacturers supply is very very good. Follow the steps like a bible and when it tells you to reboot you MUST REBOOT. I have never had one of these fail on me yet, and that includes downloading an image to the drive first and updating from the file. For those who are not brave or lack skills with dos based or bios flash utility options this is a darn good tool and way of keeping the bios fully upto date. Regards IF IT AINT BROKE, DONT FIX IT