Open browser, navigate to mainboard manufacturer's hompage, find correct BIOS image and corresponding flash utility, download it! discover that you can only update BIOS via floppy disk. (mild profanity here). find a floppy. checked. floppy drive, huh? we've 2008 man! ok, go find a floppy drive. what about a floppy disk cable? Its not working. its just not working. try to tweak some bios settings in order to get the floppy disk drive going. no good. try another floppy drive. no good. another floppy cable? argl. (some more mild profanity here)
ok, now how do we get a bootable DOS disk? no Windows around here anymore. try google. find www.bootdisk.com, download dr-dos bootdisk. discover that it is a Windows executable. (the profanity thing again) go back to bootdisk.com and search for non-exe image files. checked. write image to floppy. man that thing is slooow! ages later, strange noises appear to be coming from the floppy drive. aaah, bad blocks! try another floppy. bad blocks again. (the profanity thing gets out of hand) some four or five floppy disks later we have a bootdisk. Hmpf!
On we go. boot from floppy. at the dos prompt, run the flash tool. aaah! no keyboard. wtf? obviously a USB-keyboard isn't the way to go here. find PS/2 thingy and retry. did I tell that it takes ages to boot from a floppy. *sigh*. eventually update BIOS, remove floppy drive and swear to never ever touch a floppy disk again. two hours of lifetime lost to some 20 year old piece of technology called floppy disk.
ok, now how do we get a bootable DOS disk? no Windows around here anymore. try google. find www.bootdisk.com, download dr-dos bootdisk. discover that it is a Windows executable. (the profanity thing again) go back to bootdisk.com and search for non-exe image files. checked. write image to floppy. man that thing is slooow! ages later, strange noises appear to be coming from the floppy drive. aaah, bad blocks! try another floppy. bad blocks again. (the profanity thing gets out of hand) some four or five floppy disks later we have a bootdisk. Hmpf!
On we go. boot from floppy. at the dos prompt, run the flash tool. aaah! no keyboard. wtf? obviously a USB-keyboard isn't the way to go here. find PS/2 thingy and retry. did I tell that it takes ages to boot from a floppy. *sigh*. eventually update BIOS, remove floppy drive and swear to never ever touch a floppy disk again. two hours of lifetime lost to some 20 year old piece of technology called floppy disk.
ooohhhh, you poor man!