Updating motherboard bios without access to MS Windows
I have a MSI K8T Neo motherboard on which I'd like to update the bios in the hope that it will stop some periodic nasty crashes that I've been having (both the keyboard and the mouse stop responding, so that my only option is a hard reboot). The instructions on the motherboard site are for Windows only. Is there a process or a utility I can use to do it in linux? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but this is new territory for me. I'm currently running SuSE 9.0 Pro. (x86-64). Thanks Hilary
Usually the mobo manufacturers have a DOS-based bios upgrade tool available that can be used after booting to DOS. If you need a DOS boot disk (or boot cdrom) go look at "Bart's Boot Disk" at http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/modboot/. It is a nice all around tool that will do what you need. On the mobo manufacturer's website look for the executable and the bios upgrade file and put those on cdrom or floppy. Boot with the boot disk and then pop and run in the disk/cdrom with the bios upgrade. Mike
I have a MSI K8T Neo motherboard on which I'd like to update the bios in the hope that it will stop some periodic nasty crashes that I've been having (both the keyboard and the mouse stop responding, so that my only option is a hard reboot).
The instructions on the motherboard site are for Windows only. Is there a process or a utility I can use to do it in linux? I feel like I'm missing something obvious here, but this is new territory for me.
On Saturday 22 May 2004 09:48, mbrown wrote:
Usually the mobo manufacturers have a DOS-based bios upgrade tool available that can be used after booting to DOS. If you need a DOS boot disk (or boot cdrom) go look at "Bart's Boot Disk" at http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/modboot/. It is a nice all around tool that will do what you need. On the mobo manufacturer's website look for the executable and the bios upgrade file and put those on cdrom or floppy. Boot with the boot disk and then pop and run in the disk/cdrom with the bios upgrade.
Mike
Unfortunately MSI doesn't seem to - at least for this Motherboard. They want you to have a Windows 98 or Windows ME boot disk. I've got the files, I need - that wasn't the problem. I just don't have access to a Windows 98 or ME computer at home or at work to make a boot floppy from. I could have coped with Win 95, Win NT, Win 2000, Macintosh, Dos, Win 3.1, and probably BSD. Hilary
Hilary L Hertzoff wrote:
Unfortunately MSI doesn't seem to - at least for this Motherboard. They want you to have a Windows 98 or Windows ME boot disk.
Windows 98 and Windows ME are based on good old MS-DOS and so are their boot disks. Therefore just about any DOS boot floppy should do.
I've got the files, I need - that wasn't the problem. I just don't have access to a Windows 98 or ME computer at home or at work to make a boot floppy from. I could have coped with Win 95, Win NT, Win 2000, Macintosh, Dos, Win 3.1, and probably BSD.
I'd personally get a boot disk image from http://fdos.org/bootdisks. Get a image file named FDSTD.144.gz, unzip it and write to floppy with dd bs=512 if=fdstd.144 of=/dev/fd0h1440 After dd has done its work you should probably test your new DOS boot floppy and then copy the BIOS flash utility and the actual BIOS image to the same disk (there should be plenty of room for both). Before you use the boot disk to flash your BIOS you should either delete or rename the autoexec.bat and config.sys files on that disk, because most BIOS flash utilities need to be run in "clean" environment i.e. without any drivers whatsoever. Martti Laaksonen
Try this place. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm Mike
Unfortunately MSI doesn't seem to - at least for this Motherboard. They want you to have a Windows 98 or Windows ME boot disk.
I've got the files, I need - that wasn't the problem. I just don't have access to a Windows 98 or ME computer at home or at work to make a boot floppy from. I could have coped with Win 95, Win NT, Win 2000, Macintosh, Dos, Win 3.1, and probably BSD.
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