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October 28th, 2003 14:00
Upgrading BIOS from Memory Key
I want to upgrade my I8600 BIOS to A02 using a memory key. (There's no floppy drive, and I don't want to spend the $$$ to buy one just for the occasional BIOS update.)
I've downloaded the files to make the key bootable. I haven't yet verified that the laptop will actually boot from the key, but I'll do so before I proceed with the BIOS update.
I downloaded the I8600A02.exe file. Here's my plan from here:
Copy the .exe file to the memory key. Reboot the laptop and choose the Boot from USB option.
Take a deep breath, cross my fingers, and run the .exe file from the key.
Here's the question: Any major flaws with this plan?
Or should I stay away from updating from the key and do it from a CD?
I've seen instructions for creating the CD and so on, but never seen anything on doing the updates from a memory key.
Thanks
Bill L
bacillus
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October 28th, 2003 15:00
suggest you make the floppy on another pc then copy the image to your bootable memory key.
bleska
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October 28th, 2003 16:00
In the past, I've seen that the downloaded file is used to create the floppy used to update the BIOS, as you suggest.
But this one looks to be different: The BIOS web page for the A02 says to download the file and copy it to a bootable floppy. Then it says to reboot the system with the bootable diskette in the drive and to run the program. It doesn't look like a floppy gets created.
So if I copy the file to my memory key, and boot up on the key, I should be able to do the update from there?? Does the memory key come up as drive A:?
Bill L
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October 31st, 2003 17:00
I did the update from CD -- there's a link somewhere in this topic to a downloadable CD image for A02. Once you burn it you just redirect your boot to CD (F2 or F12, can't remember right now) and the rest happens automatically.
techsavy_9db2b7
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November 1st, 2003 14:00
After I downloaded BIOS update, I just excuted from the window and my BIOS has been updated to A02 automatically. My lappy runs just fine as usual but since all these debate about a bootable floppy, I am kind of worry, am I missing something?
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November 3rd, 2003 01:00
No your no missing anything... some people are just paranoid about updating BIOS via hard drive method. But to my way of thinking that is actually safer than using a CD. I've always done them with the hard drive method and never had a problem.
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