Update BIOS with no floppy

Can I update my BIOS without a floppy drive. Will it work if I boot from CD or does it have to do some disk writing to accomplish the upgrade?

PS: Here is my new system that I paid $415 for everything but the hard drives.

Soltek SL-75MRN-L
Barton 2500+
2X256 DDR400 Kingston HyperX
16X Sony DVD Drive
Enermax Case w/ 350W PS & Window

It actually runs descent even with the built in video. I play Star Wars galaxies and it runs quite well. I was impressed.

 

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It depends on what OS you are using.

The safest way to do things would be to boot from a floppy.

If you are using Windows 98 SE, you can restart your computer in full DOS mode and try it there, that might work.

But again, the safest way would probably be to use a floppy.

 

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Though I've never done it, you should be able to burn a bootable CD with a bootable floppy image, the flash utility, and the BIOS file.

Go here for guides to bootable CD's, http://www.bootdisk.com/ .

 

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It should be no problem writing to the BIOS from a CD-ROM.

You would have to rig the CD-ROM as the first drive in the boot-up sequence.

The only problem you would have is that when you FLASH a BIOS there is usually a preportion to the FLASH that asks what name you want to save the current BIOS info as, that you would not be able to save to disk.

However a fix to this would be to check your FLASH programs "Extra perimeters" since the programs can have extra info added to their command that will stop them from Saving the original BIOS etc.

The usual way to find out that info, is to dry-run your FLASH utility from a Command Dialog box or from DOS and use the /? "Help Perimeter". i.e.

Code:

C:/> flash.exe/?