Flashing BIOS

[doublec16]

Is it possible to flash the BIOS with wine? I have tried booting to DOS and flashing it but the flashing program apparently requires win32. Is it safe to use wine for this?

[Choozo]

Well, that's first time I've heard a BIOS flash utility actually require Win32 binaries :confused:

I don't think I would trust Wine with this either. Usually you only need a DOS bootfloppy that have command.com on it, and don't load anything to HIMEM, along with the flash utility.

What make/model of motherboard/BIOS is this?

Cheers :)

[Stween]

It is odd that a program to flash the BIOS requires Windows, but I have definately seen this before.

I would imagine there would be a DOS based flashing program available *somewhere* on the website -- any BIOS update I have seen is the actual BIOS image, with a seperate burner program.

If they can't offer a DOS burner, they are alienating users of their boards that aren't windows users.

[2damncommon]

Ditto, here.
The couple times I have flashed BIOS, I made a DOS system disk (is it format a: /s ??) with Win98 and copied the BIOS program onto the disk with the MB flash utility, if needed.
Sometimes a BIOS.exe from Windows will do all this for you.
You need to read the site and any read me files carefully.