Am Freitag, den 11.11.2005, 16:37 -0200 schrieb Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > I have an Asus motherboard (K8U-X, and it seems nobody else has this > brand) and it has the "EZ Flash" feature in which you can update the > bios by copying the image to a floppy and pressing a key (Alt-F2) during > boot. Perhaps your motherboard has this feature too. My Asus K8V Deluxe has this feature also, however, not every ASUS board can do this. I have updated my Bios several times that way and it worked perfect (except that you have to reconfigure the complete bios... grmbl...) However, I had ASUS boards before that could not upgrade that way (i.e. my old A7V), but there has always been a different way. Asus provides DOS-Tools (without warranty), and I used a free DOS (Freedos?) from the Web. This worked also. However, be careful loading bootdisks from the web. Some years ago I just took a bootdisk from bootdisk.com, and the disk contained a virus that erases the bios. I had to buy a new chip. Unbelievable - I ran a M$ OS once in five years and i catch malware. =%-) Bye, Ratti P.S.: I really can recommend Asus. Even they don't care Linux officially, their "inoffical" support always worked perfect for me. No, I don not work for them nor do I own parts of that company. :-) -- -o) fontlinge | Fontmanagement for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontlinge/ _\_V http://www.gesindel.de https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontlinge/
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