aetherh4cker
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So I was reading the Abit Bios Update Guide and it clearly shows how to update the Bios with a floppy. I was wondering if it's possible to do it without a floppy drive?
I did manage to force it to format my USB flash drive with the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option, but it formatted it down to 1.44MB in size, and with the files that were automatically put on, there isn't room to put on the Bios update software.
Here is a list of the files it put on:
DISPLAY.SYS
EGA.CPI
EGA2.CPI
EGA3.CPI
KEYB.BAT
KEYBOARD.SYS
KEYBRD2.SYS
KEYBRD3.SYS
KEYBRD4.SYS
MODE.BAT
This equals to 555KB used already, leaving me with only 868KB free. It seems I need about 1100KB free to fit the Bios update software on there, and that's assuming it will even boot from the USB flash drive.
So I'm really looking for some sort of alternative here, thanks!
I did manage to force it to format my USB flash drive with the "Create an MS-DOS startup disk" option, but it formatted it down to 1.44MB in size, and with the files that were automatically put on, there isn't room to put on the Bios update software.
Here is a list of the files it put on:
DISPLAY.SYS
EGA.CPI
EGA2.CPI
EGA3.CPI
KEYB.BAT
KEYBOARD.SYS
KEYBRD2.SYS
KEYBRD3.SYS
KEYBRD4.SYS
MODE.BAT
This equals to 555KB used already, leaving me with only 868KB free. It seems I need about 1100KB free to fit the Bios update software on there, and that's assuming it will even boot from the USB flash drive.
So I'm really looking for some sort of alternative here, thanks!