How to update bios with no floppy

Hey everyone, i just first wanted to thank everyone for helping people like me out , My questions is the title.. how to flash bios without a floppy drive and not using Live Update ( which i heard causes more trouble then help ). I have Bios 1.5 and would like to move up to bios 1.6 for better overclocking, i am stuck right now @ 240 x 9 = 2160Mhz. if i move it past 240 even to 241 it wont post at all, but my system is not even being pushed, i lower the mem divdeder to 100 and cpu multi to 7x and nothing. I heard bios 1.5 is bad with overclocking and 1.6 would help me. Thank you.
Mike

Quote from: servo101 on 25-September-05, 23:44:46
i use winflash all the time. and as jaybee said, its pretty safe as long as you turn off everything (except your PC of course )
and if somehow, the BIOS is corrupt, you can just DL a new one, reflash it and still be okay without ever having to reboot.
I beg to differ. When I had flashed my K8N Neo (7030) board to the now recalled 1.8 bios (in DOS), I tried to flash it to 1.9 beta using Winflash, following the instructions here on the forum to the very last point, and for me Winflash did not work. Not only did it fail to flash, it also failed to flash using several different bioses. So even though I was able to reflash without rebooting, it did not help me since no bios file worked.
My bios was corrupt and I had to order a replacement chip.
There is always the possible hardware fault (bad flash chip), but since it flashed successfully in DOS only a few days before, I see no reason to suspect the hardware.
My recommendation is therefore: *always* *always* *ALWAYS* use DOS when flashing.

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