Wow!
That flashrom thing had gone under my radar. I see that my motherboard is
OK (MSI MS-7255 - P4M890M, including southbridge VIA VT8237A) but can't
find the BIOS chip as supported hardware.
Very interesting, thank you very much. However, as dealing with flashrom
would be off-topic here, I'm
If you need a reliable flashing environment right now, you can use any
bootable USB Linux with a flashrom opensource flashing tool - which
could be installed as easily as a simple "sudo apt-get install
flashrom" command (for Linux Mint). And then, if your board supports
the internal flashing mode
Hi, thanks for your reply.
I understood. I will explore that way.
That "drivers could interfere with the flashing process" is new to me. Of
course in the past -when floppies were still a common thing- I have always
upgraded my BIOSes via win98 boot floppy. I already installed FreeDOS 1.3
RC4 on
Hi! I think for BIOS flashing, a good way would be to start
with a minimal boot floppy image, you can find that online
for FreeDOS. Or use one with more apps on it and remove
some of them to make space. Then, you mount or open the
image with a free tool (depends on the OS, in Linux you
can use
