Nforce420: How can I upgrade BIOS on a computer with NTFS and no flopp

I have a multimedia PC in my living room hooked up to my TV and I am planning to use it as a PVR, MP3 jukebox, DVD player and photo album.
I build this machine in a small aluminium case, with the minimum components. I chose the nForce as the platform for this machine to minimise the number of components (and noise/heat).
I'm running Windows XP with NTFS and there is no floppy drive in this system. Do you guys have an idea about how I can upgrade the bios from 2.0 to 2.4 (or 2.6?)?
Thanks in advance

Well, if you have any kind of internet connection on the computer, then MSI LiveUpdate is the way to go.  I had the same problem after I didn't quite plug in my floppy right the other day -- the burning smell was exhilirating but my computer was fine.  I have only NTFS partitions too and no floppy, but with an Internet connection it was easy to update the bios.
For some reason LiveUpdate wanted to tell me that the latest BIOS is 2.4, so if you navigate to C:\Program Files\Setup Files\MS6373v240 and replace the BIOS image files there with the 2.6 ones you downloaded, and run Winflash.exe, it will flash you to 2.6.
Alternately you could just download all that stuff on another computer and burn a CD with it.  You could make that CD bootable or you could boot off a Win98 startup CD or something and put your CD in after the computer boots up...not really sure how well that would work.
Winflash has worked fine for me the three times I've used it (from 2.4 to 2.5, then back to 2.4, and now to 2.6).

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