Not sure how to help without a monitor, but typically the flash utilities have a way to dump the BIOS to a rom file, which you could save to the floppy and then flash elsewhere. Michael Vieths Foeclan at Winternet.Com On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Austad, Jay wrote: > Ok, I have this Intel MB sitting here, and I need to take the bios off of it > and flash it onto an identical board. The bios chip is not removable, so > I'm hoping I can find some kind of floppy disk that will boot and suck the > image down onto it. Anyone have any idea how I could do this? > > Preferably it would be automated since the box with the bios I need doesn't > have a video card. I assume I could make a linux boot disk with console to > serial port support, but I still need to know how to grab the bios image and > write it back to the other board. Does the flash bios show up in /dev at > all? > > Jay > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at lists.real-time.com > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >