Flashing K8N Neo4F (7125) BIOS from Floppy

About a month ago I flashed my BIOS to the 1.75Mod.  Since then I have had innumerable, inexplicable, and generally infuriating problems with my computer.  It locks up, Windows won't load or will take 15+minutes to load, and my Hard Drive keeps getting data corruption.  I have erased my hard drive and reinstalled windows more than 5 times. 
I'm hoping the problem is the BIOS.  It is the only variable that I haven't addressed yet, because whenever I have tried to flash back to my old BIOS through Winflash, I get a strange error about the BIOS being the wrong size for my BIOS mainboard.  The MSI techs I have spoken with have told me that, most likely, the Mod is registeing incorrectly with WInflash and, therefore, I must flash through a Floppy drive.
Now I have a floppy drive on the way from Newegg and I am wondering if someone could point me to a comprehensive guide for performing this procedure.  Flashing with Winflash was easy but the floppy flash seems a bit more complicated.  Since I don't have much money, I would like to get it right the first time.

I did not realize it was a problem to post the same question in two different forums.  I posted in the BIOS forum, as it pertains to BIOS, and in this forum, because this is the forum for my Mobo.  I have found that I get different answers from different people in the different forums I have posted in on this site.  It seemed logical to me to ask in both places.  I certainly didn't mean to be 'spamming'.
However, I appreciate the links you gave me in the other post, Blazing Storm.  Any other suggestions would be appreciated, whichever post you answer in ; ).

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    gabry3795 wrote:
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