How to flash from USB flash drive

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BababooeyHTJ

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My floppy is shot and my P5Q has it's own utility which works pretty well so I have never had to use a USB flash drive to boot into dos and flash the bios on a board or video card. How would I do that?

Also how would I use nibitor to mod and flash the bios on a video card?

Thanks in advance.
 
First you would read you're motherboards manual, it has that exact procedure in it. And you don't boot into DOS, you just go to you're BIOS, select the Flashing utility, select the USB stick with the BIOS file on it and flash it.
 
if you're trying to flash the motherboard, use motherboard specific procedures to flash the bios. if you're flashing the video card, use nibitor/nvflash with a dos-bootable usb drive. The same usb drive can also flash the motherboard, but you're going to be using a different program for that, depending on what mobo it is. I personally dont use any built in motherboard programs as the usb stick tends to be the safest and most versatile. dos can do anything.
 
I honestly don't know how to get my usb drive to boot into DOS. I need to mod the bios on a 7800gt. I have been using the utility on my board for flashing that but I miss afudos.
 
You can put a bootable DOS on a USB stick with unetbootin. Google it.
 
I don't know how you managed to use a mobo flashing tool to write data to a video card, but I wouldn't recommend it. Either way, to edit the bios file, you need nibitor. It's a free download on mvktech.net. they also have instructions there on what you need to do. As for the bootable usb drive, like the poster above said, there's instructions all over the internet along with various ways to do it. Basically you need to format the drive and put a few dos-specific files on there.
 
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