On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Tom Metro wrote:
> I was updating the BIOS on a 2007-era motherboard yesterday.
>
> Plan B was to use the vendor supplied flash utility that runs under DOS.
> (Of course they also provide a Windows flashing tool but I wasn't about
> to install Windows (or find
Tom Metro wrote:
What I don't get is why these vendors don't supply their tools
incorporated into bootable images. FreeDOS has been available for a long
time (1.0 released in 2007[1], but usable versions date back to
FreeDOS is GPL. That's enough for some not to use it and not to
recommend usi
I was updating the BIOS on a 2007-era motherboard yesterday. The BIOS it
came with was advanced enough to have a built-in flashing utility, yet
it was designed to *only* load BIOS files from floppy disks. Rather odd,
as even in 2007, floppies were already considered obsolete, and
accordingly the sy
