BIOS Update help, please?

I just updated my processor from an AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 to an AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and it isn't being recognized as a dual core processor in Windows.  Everything else is working fine except for that.  As I understand it, I need to update the BIOS to correct that.
I've been reading here and the MSI instructions and there seems to be several sets of instructions for flashing the BIOS most of which directly conflict with each other with instructions about extracting the BIOS file to a floppy or extracting it to the HD?  Booting with a Win98 floppy or boot with a WinXP-prepared MS DOS floppy (I don't have any Win98 machines nor do I have any friends with win98 machines)?  Using WinFlash?  Setting jumpers (I don't see jumpers on my board Guide)?
I would so appreciate it if it were possible to get a single, coherent, set of instructions for flashing the BIOS so I don't completely hose my system?
I have overclocked or done anything else unusual.  I do have RAID drives in 0+1 configuration and everything is formatted to NTFS, if that matters.
Hopefully everything else is in the signature. If other information is needed, please just ask.
Thanks!
--seagreen

Here some differant choises for boot-disks ( for example win98 floppy )
http://www.bootdisk.com/
I´ve had no failures using std. DOS update.
http://www.msi.com.tw/html/support/bios/note/ntfs.htm
but as you say....there are more ways in doing it.
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=84865.msg606175#msg606175
PS.Edit. Live update is not recommended, because higher rate of failures.

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