Re: [ilugd] How To : Update Bios in Some Gigabyte MBs "Kristian Erik Hermansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Simply decompress the *.exe with ark for example (assume that it is a > > .rar archive). > > You will get the required file for updating the bios with Q-flash and > > other standalone flashing utilities. > > Of course there is nothing as yet about this on their site. > > I think this is only with the assumption that it is a self-extracting > executable. In that case. you can also use cabextract from the > command line. If it is a real winXX exe, you can also try wine to run > it and get the files out. What is the output of the 'file' command on > that exe?
Typically it is an archive of a .exe, the bios file and a .bat file It is apparently a win32 exe file gives "MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows (GUI) Intel 80386 32-bit" Ark does it well. cabextract cannot find any 'cabinets' Best A. Mani -- A. Mani Member, Cal. Math. Soc _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
