Nate Carlson wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Perry Hoekstra wrote: > >> I need to update the BIOS on my ASUS motherboard but this >> configuration does not have a floppy drive. Is there anyway to >> update the BIOS without having to stick a floppy drive in the the case? > > > For most systems, you can create a floppy image, and burn it to a CD > as the boot image. Some BIOS updaters expect to write to the floppy, > and will fail when running from a CD, though. > > Otherwise, if you have DOS/Windows installed, you should be able to do > it through that. Another alternative is to get a USB memory key > thingy, format it to bootable MSDOS on another system, and boot/flash > from that. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > | nate carlson | natecars at natecarlson.com | http://www.natecarlson.com | > | depriving some poor village of its idiot since 1981 | > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > I thought about the USB idea, but how do you specify the USB drive in the boot sequence? I did not see that option when I was looking at the ASUS BIOS menu. Perry Hoekstra