Creating a flash BIOS CD - new motherboard

Question

I just got a used motherboard from eBay, and I'll probably need to flash.

I knew this at one time, but can someone refresh my memory on what to do? I forgot how to create a BIOS disc. It's an Inspiron 8100. I had BIOS version A15, and I assume that's still the latest.

After I have the CD or floppy made, I hit F12 and boot from the appropriate drive?

Thanks for any help. I can't believe I forgot this.

ejn63 · Answer

The floppy installer will create a bootable floppy. Creating a bootable CD is more difficult, must be done manually and will be documented in your CD writer software manual or help file (Nero, Roxio/Sonic, etc.).

jason407 · Answer

Floppy installer?   I thought you had to do fdisk or something.    God.  I had a class in this 5 years ago and now I feel like a total idiot.

ejn63 · Answer

This file will make a bootable flash floppy with the BIOS file on it.

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=gen&releaseid=R57195&SystemID=INS_PNT_P3CT_8100&servicetag=&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=1329&devlib=0&typecnt=0&vercnt=10&catid=-1&impid=-1&formatcnt=4&libid=1&fileid=68417

Bay Wolf · Answer

I have made it easy for you.

On my web site, I have bootable ISO images of some flash updates.

I do have the latest I8100.

http://www.bay-wolf.com/flashbios.htm

Dowload it, burn the image to a cd and flash away.

jason407 · Answer

Thanks guys.   Bay Wolf, I downloaded the ISO image but it says 'windows cannot open this file'.  It's an unknown file type.  I can read the text document of course...   Any suggestions?

Bay Wolf · Answer

It is a bootable CD image file.

When this image file is burned to a CD in the correct fashion, you will have a bootable CD that will update your BIOS.

http://www.petri.co.il/how_to_write_iso_files_to_cd.htm

MQubed · Answer

where is the floppy installer?? Does it create a bootable disk?? Scratch That (sorry, my fingers went faster than my brain).... Message Edited by MQubed on 09-17-2008 03:11 PM

jason407 · Answer

So I just save the download that ejn63 specified to floppy, then boot from floppy when everything is ready?

jason407 · Answer

BTW, I just got my motherboard and I'm getting ready to put everything together. I'm assuming all I have to do is install everything, flash the bios, reinstall drivers, and be done.

Something tells me it won't be that easy...

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