Basil Chupin wrote:

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The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)?

What board? For Intel boards you can download a .bio file. Put in on a USB stick, take the jumper off the mainboard, boot, and see it happen.

That upgrade may work under DOS. If so, you could try FreeDOS.

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On 04/26/2012 10:47 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:

On 04/26/2012 07:22 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:

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Yesterday I picked up from the store all the bits from which to create a new magical computer - which I will be so doing in the next 12 hours or so.

There is an upgrade available to the BIOS on the motherboard - which the installation instructions suggest be done.

However, the darn upgrade file is an *.exe file. I have "unarched" this file and it contains a *bat, an *exe and the actual BIOS upgrade file.

I have never applied a BIOS upgrade while using Linux, and the last time I did apply a BIOS upgrade was some 9 years ago under XP.

The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)? I'm a little confused, here. I've only upgraded a BIOS a couple of times in the last 15 years or so, but I seem to remember that you have to do it from a self-booting disk -- a floppy, back then-- not from an operating OS. Normally, I would have thought, that you don't have access to the BIOS from a running system. Has this changed? Look carefully at the software you have, and see if it doesn't require you to make some sort of bootable medium to run it from, and if so, there's a reasonable chance you could do that from Linux. (rawrite, anybody?) If not, then make the disk on someone else's computer, who's running Windows.

Or am I just out of sync with the modern world? --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 2012/04/26 18:04 (GMT+0200) Ismail Doenmez composed:

Usually these *.exe files are DOS compatible so you can use Firmware Update Kit (FUK) , see http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/01/19/fuk-the-kit-you-will-love/

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Hi; Quoting Cristian Rodríguez :

El 26/04/12 13:04, Ismail Doenmez escribió:

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Usually these *.exe files are DOS compatible so you can use Firmware Update Kit (FUK) , see http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/01/19/fuk-the-kit-you-will-love/

Yes that usually works, however some current Dell bios packages (those from vendor phoenix) do not, they only include a win32 GUI app.

For my Dell laptop and desktop FUK worked fine bu your mileage might vary. Regards. -- Ismail Dönmez - openSUSE Booster SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:04 Ismail Doenmez wrote:

Hi;

Quoting Basil Chupin :

...

Yesterday I picked up from the store all the bits from which to create a new magical computer - which I will be so doing in the next 12 hours or so.

There is an upgrade available to the BIOS on the motherboard - which the installation instructions suggest be done.

However, the darn upgrade file is an *.exe file. I have "unarched" this file and it contains a *bat, an *exe and the actual BIOS upgrade file.

I have never applied a BIOS upgrade while using Linux, and the last time I did apply a BIOS upgrade was some 9 years ago under XP.

The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)?

Thanks for any hints/comments.

Usually these *.exe files are DOS compatible so you can use Firmware Update Kit (FUK) , see http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/01/19/fuk-the-kit-you-will-love/

Regards.

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On 27/04/12 02:48, Insomniactoo wrote:

On Thursday, 26 April 2012 11:04 Ismail Doenmez wrote:

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Hi;

Quoting Basil Chupin:

...

Yesterday I picked up from the store all the bits from which to create a new magical computer - which I will be so doing in the next 12 hours or so.

There is an upgrade available to the BIOS on the motherboard - which the installation instructions suggest be done.

However, the darn upgrade file is an *.exe file. I have "unarched" this file and it contains a *bat, an *exe and the actual BIOS upgrade file.

I have never applied a BIOS upgrade while using Linux, and the last time I did apply a BIOS upgrade was some 9 years ago under XP.

The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)?

Thanks for any hints/comments. Usually these *.exe files are DOS compatible so you can use Firmware Update Kit (FUK) , see http://lizards.opensuse.org/2012/01/19/fuk-the-kit-you-will-love/

Regards.

Just the name of that app alone will put a bunch that post in here to get their panties in a wad and they'll be screaming and ranting and raving at the poor dev of said app to change it or else.

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On 27/04/12 21:37, David Haller wrote:

Hello,

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To the question about which motherboard it is, it is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with an Award BIOS. That should have the "builtin" Q-Flash utility, i.e. you just need to unpack the BIOS-file to a floppy, USB-stick, Harddrive with FAT32 (<32G to be safe). Follow the instructions in the MoBo-manual on using

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Basil Chupin wrote: the Q-Flash utility.

HTH, -dnh

AHA, thanks for this. It would have to be an USB memory stick if anything because the system doesn't have a floppy and there is nothing Windows in sight on this system. BC -- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 29/04/12 18:12, Werner Flamme wrote:

[29.04.2012 08:38] [Basil Chupin]:

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On 27/04/12 21:37, David Haller wrote:

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Hello,

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To the question about which motherboard it is, it is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD3 with an Award BIOS. That should have the "builtin" Q-Flash utility, i.e. you just need to unpack the BIOS-file to a floppy, USB-stick, Harddrive with FAT32 (<32G to be safe). Follow the instructions in the MoBo-manual on using

On Fri, 27 Apr 2012, Basil Chupin wrote: the Q-Flash utility.

HTH, -dnh AHA, thanks for this. It would have to be an USB memory stick if anything because the system doesn't have a floppy and there is nothing Windows in sight on this system. The Q-Flash utility works with FAT32, Windows or not :-).

You need a FAT32-formatted USB stick or a FAT32 formatted hard disk oder a FAT(12) formatted floppy disk... The utility does not recognize any other filesystem format.

I tried with other formats on a USB stick, to no avail :-(

Regards, Werner

Thanks Werner. I do have a couple of FAT32 formatted USB memory sticks so will use one of these if I finally decide to flash the BIOS. BC -- A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Sir Winston Churchill -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 29/04/12 23:05, Graham Smith wrote:

Basil,

Have a look at a utility called flashrom for upgrading the BIOS. I have used it successfully on my ASUS motherboard. You just run it on the command line.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashrom

http://flashrom.org/Flashrom

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