• Welcome to TechPowerUp Forums, Guest! Please check out our forum guidelines for info related to our community.

howto easly flash mb/vga bios using usbstick

Joined
Sep 5, 2004
Messages
1,956 (0.27/day)
Location
The Kingdom of Norway
Processor Ryzen 5900X
Motherboard Gigabyte B550I AORUS PRO AX 1.1
Cooling Noctua NB-U12A
Memory 2x 32GB Fury DDR4 3200mhz
Video Card(s) PowerColor Radeon 5700 XT Red Dragon
Storage Kingston FURY Renegade 2TB PCIe 4.0
Display(s) 2x Dell U2412M
Case Phanteks P400A
Audio Device(s) Hifimediy Sabre 9018 USB DAC
Power Supply Corsair AX850 (from 2012)
Software Windows 10?
[Sticky me baby!]

you need:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool ( SP27608.zip )
Win ME Bootdisk files (bootme.zip )
any usbstick

Create a Bootable USBstick
1. Run "HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool"
2. Select you usbstick as Device
3. Select FAT as File system
4. Volume name "BOOT98SE"
5. Select Quick Format (besure to copy any importal files off you usbstick!)
6. Select Create a DOS startup disk
7. unzip the bootme.zip and point "Using DOS system files located at" to the unzipped folder with files inside
8. Then start
9. Now it should be done, you wont see any files on the usbstick as they are in the boot sector

Flash the MB BIOS
1. Download you bios files from motherboard manufacturer
2. Unzip it
3. Copy the files to your usbstick
4. Let the usbstick be in the port
5. Go into bios, then in boot priority
6. Select usb flash disk in removable or in hard drive as first boot device
7. Now save and reboot
8. Now you should get "Starting Windows Millenium Emergency Boot"

WARNING: flashing bios while ocing is not a good idea, and you should not reboot or anything while flashing, besure that the usbstick dont have any errors

9. Now you flash the bios using the "NAME.EXE BIOS.XXX"
10. When done flashing, reboot
11. and your done

Flash the VGA ATI BIOS
1. Download you bios files from motherboard manufacturer
2. Unzip it
3. Copy the files to your usbstick
4. Let the usbstick be in the port
5. Go into bios, then in boot priority
6. Select usb flash disk in removable or in hard drive as first boot device
7. Now save and reboot
8. Now you should get "Starting Windows Millenium Emergency Boot"

WARNING: flashing bios while ocing is not a good idea, and you should not reboot or anything while flashing, besure that the usbstick dont have any errors
9. save old bios with "atiflash -s 0 orginal"
10. flash new bios with "atiflash -f -p 0 filename"
11. When done flashing, reboot
12. and your done


Tip: you can put other files on the usbstick, just dont format it it will be and everything as it was before :)
 

Attachments

  • bootme.zip
    772.1 KB · Views: 36,954
  • SP27608.zip
    1.8 MB · Views: 26,187
Top