Unable to update BIOS?

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intelfanboy88

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I am having trouble updating my BIOS on the board in my sig. I had to get a new one (RMA'd) recently and the BIOS it comes with is old and is buggy with Vista. When I try to update to the Vista friendly BIOS, it gives me the following error:

"Occur error when open BIOS file backed! BIOS updating will break off."

Any ideas?
 
Dont update from within Windows, use a floppy or thumb drive and flash it from within the BIOS.
 
Flashing the BIOS with a floppy is the most common way. Usually you go to the manufacturers website, download the latest BIOS and their BIOS flashing utility, put it on a floppy, and then boot from it.

Or on some of the newer ones you just put the latest BIOS on a floppy by itself, and then launch the flashing utility from within the BIOS.
 
Using a floppy isn't really an option for me... And I am having trouble booting from a USB drive. I get it to boot from it but maybe I did not put the right things on the drive. I put the utility (its called AWDFLASH.exe) along with a .BIN file which is the new BIOS. Is that what I need to make it bootable?
 
That is what you need to make it bootable, but probably the majority of the time it has to be on a floppy drive in order to work.
 
Are you sure it's the BIOS thats given you errors in Vista? Have you installed all the drivers (Chipset, VGA, Sound, Networking, etc)?
 
Yeah, that stuff is fine. What happened was I had this board with updated BIOS before I got Vista, then I had to get a replacement board (which has old BIOS). Now I am having problems and it says on Foxconn's website that the latest version is Vista compatible. So I don't have a floppy drive which means I can't fix it?
 
If it has the capability to be flashed from within Windows and it isnt working, and you dont have a floppy drive, you're pretty much out of luck unless you dont mind spending $5-$10 for a floppy online, or probably get one free from any dump.
 
Meh, I have one lying around...no disks though. I suppose I could just go get one somewhere. What a pain. Any reason why people still make their products to rely on floppy disks??
 
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