WARNING!
FLASHING YOUR BIOS CAN CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR SYSTEM. BENCHADDIX DOES NOT TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. DO THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK!
Flashing on a FAT file system
1. Check your BIOS for BIOS FLASH DISABLED and ENABLE it, some boards have this function.
2. You need to know your board's model and version number's. You can find this by opening up your case and looking on your board itself. Programs such as "CPU-Z" can also
be used to find the model and version number's of your board.
3. Download the BIOS that matches your motherboard AND version number.
4. Extract the BIOS-archive that you have downloaded by double clicking to c:\test
5. Boot your system from a Win98 or WinME boot-floppy.
How to make boot floppy in case your don’t have it ready:
For Win9X, You can type [C:\ format a:/s] from the DOS prompt.
For WinMe, You can make a boot floppy from control panel--> add/remove program-->make boot floppy. Remove autoexec.bat & config.sys file if there's any.
For Win2000, there's no way to make boot floppy, so you have to either use Win9X or WinME boot floppy.
For WinXP, you can make a DOS boot disk. Go to Your Computer, right click drive A:, select Format, select copy system files.
6. When you get the A:\ prompt, type the following sequence:
C:
cd\test
C:\test> awdfl783m BIOS file
(to save or not to save old BIOS is the user’s decision)
7. Reboot your system when prompted
Flashing the BIOS for Non-FAT file system
1. Check your BIOS for BIOS FLASH DISABLED and ENABLE it, some boards have this function.
2. You need to know your board's model and version number's. You can find this by opening up your case and looking on your board itself. Programs such as "CPU-Z" can also
be used to find the model and version number's of your board.
3. Download the BIOS that matches your motherboard AND version number.
4. Extract the file you have downloaded to a floppy (not the win ME/98 startup floppy) by double clocking the file in windows mode and supplying the path a:\
5. Boot the computer using a windows ME or windows 98 startup disk. It must be one of these! A plain boot disk will not be good enogh.
If you do not have Windows ME or 98 to create the floppy you can make one on a friend's computer.
6. When boot is done there will be a message on the screen showing :"Diagnostic tools were successfully loaded to drive" followed by a single letter.
This letter is the leter assigned to the RAMDRIVE. This RAMDRIVE is a virtual drive in the system memory and can be accessed and controlled like any other drive with DOS commands such as:
MD - Make Directory
Copy - copy a file
Deleate - Deleate a file
There is one important difference which is that being in the system memory this drive is wiped once the computer is restarted or shut down.
7. Replace the startup floppy with the one containing the flash utility and bios ROM files previously extracted in windows.
8. Copy the 2 files to the RAMDRIVE by using the DOS command copy.
Here is an example, in this example the flash utility is AWFL814B.EXE ,the ROM file is w6373nms.220 and the RAMDRIVE letter assignment is D
copy awfl814b.exe d:\
copy w6337nms.220 d:\
9. Change the current working directory to the RAMDRIVE root directory, with the example case of the RAMDRIVE being drive D this is done by simply done with the command d:
10. Execute the flash utility with the ROM file as a command line argument, with this example:
awfl814b w6373nms.220
If you wish to save the current bios you must specify the full path a:\filename. Specifying only a file name will save the bios to the RAMDRIVE which will be wiped after restarting the computer and the file will not be saved.
a:\bios.old is an example of the correct way to save the bios.
11. Reboot your system when prompted