Flashing bios via liveupdate question

My question is......is it safe??  I have a NTFS SATA drive and killed my motherboard last time I tried to flash the bios.  I see there are 2 options, windows or dos.  Which one is safer and easier for a newbie?  
I want to upgrade my bios is hope that it will help my sata lag problem and i want to use cool and quiet =)
Thanks,
Kevin

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Originally posted by kevinmtu
My question is......is it safe??  I have a NTFS SATA drive and killed my motherboard last time I tried to flash the bios.  I see there are 2 options, windows or dos.  Which one is safer and easier for a newbie?  
I want to upgrade my bios is hope that it will help my sata lag problem and i want to use cool and quiet =)
Thanks,
Kevin
MSI seems to really discourage liveupdate on NTFS.  That was enough for me to flash from DOS.  While their instructions are detailed, they're really not that hard to implement as long as you're not being careless.  My flash to 1.2 went perfect using the DOS method on my NFTS machine...

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