What hardware do you use to flash BIOS?

[Vitalij]

I mean seriosly, i know in old times everybody used flopy's to flash BIOS, but todays computers doesn't make a floppy drives anymore. How about using a BIOS programmer? i heard a Nano bios programmer is a good tool.

 

[iisjman07]

External USB floppy drive...

 

[Vitalij]

External USB floppy drive...

but what connector does that external floppy drive use? USB? because older BIOS i think can't make primary boot device as usb

 

[iptech]

but what connector does that external floppy drive use? USB? because older BIOS i think can't make primary boot device as usb

...in which case you could slave-in a standard 3.5 floppy if there's not one fitted.

 

[Xander]

What connector does a USB floppy drive use? Self-answered?


Anyway, what's wrong with using a Win98 image and burning the files (with ROM) to a CD?

 

[Vitalij]

What connector does a USB floppy drive use? Self-answered?


Anyway, what's wrong with using a Win98 image and burning the files (with ROM) to a CD?

The thing that it is not very economical if you plan to flash many BIOS'es

 

[14049752]

How often do you plan to flash a bios? I'm clearly not following something here, because there's nothing at all difficult about flashing a bios or figuring out how to do it.

Just use either a CDRW, an internal floppy or usb floppy. Why is this even a thread?

 

[Vitalij]

i just wanted to ask your opinion. nevertheless thanks for answers.

CLOSED

 

[MrUnknown]

there are online businesses that make a living flashing BIOSes, so I am sure they don't have every known motherboard out there. Contact one and ask if they will tell you what they use.