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evasive · Posted: Sat Jan 25, 2003 4:10 pm Post subject: Upgrading, Step By Step

Gigabyte has prepared a BIOS upgrading tutorial:
http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html

Quite complete. Note: replace any Gigabyte entry with your manufacturer's.

Also: SOYO offers a great (and simpler, text-based) explanation of:
a) How to flash your BIOS.
b) How to determine if you need a 1Mbit (128KB) or 2Mbit (256KB) BIOS.

http://www.soyousa.com/kb/kbdesc.php?id=35

edit: updated gigabyte link
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CDBurner · Black Belt 4th Degree Joined: 05 Apr 2003 Posts: 4837

Very nice! The page seems to have moved to http://tw.giga-byte.com/english-web/support/procedure1.htm.
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Ripshod · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject:

Neither link works for me, always end on the home page. eek

Can we have updates Pls.
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evasive · Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 4:55 pm Post subject:

The soyo link still works, updated the gigabyte one.
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and235100 · Pilgrim Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 1

Thanx for this site, I have been looking for flash bios upgrades for ages, but haven't been able to steel myself into applying them, in fear of messing my computers up.

Cheers again....

Ban · Pilgrim Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 1

The procedure from the Soyo website above worked for me. Some of the instructions that I read warned me not to flash from a floppy disk and that made me really nervous because (with XP) after booting from the floppy, I couldn't access my harddrive. I followed the directions and flashed it from the floppy as directed by Soyo and it worked big grin

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There are two files that you need, one is an ***.exe file and the other is a ***.bin or a filename with 3 numbers as the extension.

I Flashed an MSI MS6378X-L motherboard BIOS by downloading a zip file from MSI's website and unzipping it onto a formatted, bootable floppy. The files that were unzipped were awfl823.exe, w6378.350, and two text/readme files. I rebooted using the floppy and typed the following at the A:\ prompt:

awfl823 w6378.350 /f

then followed the directions to complete the flashing process.

I remember the utility asking me if I wanted to save the old BIOS and saying yes, I named it "oldbios" but didn't know if I was supposed to give it an extension. I didn't think it would matter because my BIOS version and video card were incompatible anyway so I was going to replace the board if upgrading the BIOS didn't work.

Here's some more info on it below, I recommend reading as much about it as you can about it so that you are comfortable with the procedure.

http://www.cybertechhelp.com/html/tutorials/tutorial.php/id/65

This is only my second time flashing a BIOS so if you see something else that makes more sense for your system, use it.

Hopes this helps and GL.

dapnac3 · Pilgrim Joined: 14 Jan 2004 Posts: 11 Location: NYC

evasive · Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 3:32 am Post subject:

http://www.gigabyte.com/webpage/20/HowToReflashBIOS.html

moved again
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