update bios without a floppy drive

[mmm-sandwich]

the title mostly says it....how do i do this without having a floppy drive? i tried burning the bios update and booting from cd, since it has an autoexec.bat, but no dice.

i've searched all over the internet looking for a solution...someone please help

the board is a 965p-DS3 rev 1.3 btw

 

[Zepher]

I used an old Win98 SE disc and booted to DOS.
I then used a CD with the bios and flash utility already burned on it and flashed it that way.
Only drawback is that you can't save the old BIOS.

 

[Captain Slow]

Presumably, you could put the required files on USB stick, if your board supports booting from USB devices. Should work as any other drive, I think.

 

[The Gonz]

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html

Use that link to download the HP utility. It turns any USB drive into a bootable drive. Tinker with and updated my bios last night from using it.

 

[Docmhz]

Good info, I was just about to search for a topic on this.

Thanks

 

[romeozor]

on my laptop i used nero to create a dos boot disk, also worked

 

[kirbyrj]

I do it from Windows using their Windows flashing utils. No problems for me.

 

[mmm-sandwich]

I do it from Windows using their Windows flashing utils. No problems for me.

link?

something like that would be awesome. though i could most definately just boot from a USB drive.

thanks for the input everyone

 

[mmm-sandwich]

nm found it

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Support/Motherboard/HowToReflashBIOS.aspx

 

[Servant of Shodan]

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/serveroptions/us/download/23839.html

Use that link to download the HP utility. It turns any USB drive into a bootable drive. Tinker with and updated my bios last night from using it.

Interesting. Do you think this might work with the age old problem of installing RAID or SATA drivers during a fresh WinXP install when there is no floppy present? Anybody have experience with this?

 

[SDraconis]

Not without help from your mobo. The Windows installer is painfully stupid and always checks for the 3rd party drivers on the A drive, and nothing else. Now, if mobo's started coming with a way to remap the A drive to a USB, that would work. Currently, some mobo manufacturers are using a trick that makes SATA drives appear like IDE ones to the Windows installer, so everything is happy.