A rather old-school but effective method, I have made a Windows 98
bootable recovery USB (The same way you made the FreeDOS one) and have
all of the BIOS utilities on this one USB.
I have used this for flashing and updating / Changing DMI information
on Intel, Dell, MSI and Phoenix motherboards.
The reason for windows 98 is that some of the tools by some
manufacturers only run on MS DOS and not FreeDOS.
On 28 December 2014 at 02:23, Neil Rickert
On 12/24/2014 02:10 PM, Peter wrote:
Just replaced the motherboard in my Dell Latitude D630 laptop but it comes with an older version of the BIOS installed (A15), and it's apparently quite critical that I have at least A16 (my old motherboard had A17). Of course Dell only supply a Windows/DOS update utility.
I just did this yesterday, on a Lenovo ThinkServer.
I used "rufus" to create a freedos bootable USB. (Do a web search for "rufus"). Okay, this does require access to Windows to run "rufus", but it need not be on the same computer. In my case there is no Windows on the Lenovo.
Then I plugged the USB into my opensuse box, and copied the BIOS updater to it. I unmounted the USB, then booted to it. The BIOS update went fine. (Lenovo actually recommends using "rufus" for this).
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