Bios flashing w/fed4_64

[Ian Malone]

Steve Underwood wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
> 
>> John Summerfied wrote:
>>
>>>>
>>> I've got one or to mobos that can read direcly from floppy. (I'm not 
>>> sure they actually have floppy drives attached, several of my 
>>> machines haven't).
>>>
>>> Sometimes (often?) freedos will do the job; I think Dell and/or HP 
>>> uses Freedos regardless of what their actual instructions say.
>>>
>> AOL: my last two Gigabyte MBs have been able to update the bios 
>> directly from
>> a file on a floppy without Win / DOS (and save the current bios 
>> directly too). One
>> of the reasons my next MB will be a Gigabyte.
>>
> Interesting. Can they update from a USB memory stick, too? My only 
> reason for installing floppy drives these days is to permit BIOS updates.
> 

I'm pretty sure it can't. As I've just mentioned in another post it is
a few years old, so that might be possible now. On the other hand it
sounds like Gigabyte have stopped using it (or at least don't use it
on every MB).

-- 
imalone ♘