On Thursday 17 December 2009 10:57:48 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 21:00 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Wednesday 16 December 2009, Aaron Konstam wrote: > >> >The last time I installed a new BIOS on a Dell Computer I used a floppy > >> >disk. That is no longer an option. Could anyone explain how I can > >> >accomplish this? Please be as detailed as you can describing the > >> >procedure. > >> > >> Most bios these days are equipt to do that themselves from one of the > >> more right hand option menu's. I have updated the bios on this asus > >> motherboard several times now, by putting the new bios file on a usbkey > >> & plugging it in. > >> > >> It will muddle along looking the system over for a while but its never > >> failed to find it. It is also capable of saving the old bios back to > >> that same key before you install the new one too. > > > >I don't understand you procedure. The BIOS file I downloaded is an .EXE > >file. When I put on a usb drive and i insert it. It just sits there. If > >I try to execute it it says it is looking for a zip file and can't find > >it. What am I missing? What right hand menus are you talking about > > Do a cold start and repeatedly hit the del key (or whatever it shows as the > magic key on the bottom of the screen as it completes the P.O.S.T. > procedure) to get into the motherboards bios. At least the del key is the > trigger for the bios on my motherboard. This will take you into the bios > configuration for your motherboard. On my box, right arrow to highlight > the next to last entry & hit enter. There should be an option to > self-update the bios there. > I updated my DELL bios this way, it worked great: http://linuxtidbits.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/create-a-bios-recovery-cd-in- linux/ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
