Updating BIOS

vanmortel · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 21

Hi,

I have a Asus Z9000 Laptop and the only way to upgrade BIOS is from Asus Window Apps. Well, that what they said on their site. But, I have the ".rom" file. So, I wonder if there is any way that I can update my BIOS from a CD-ROM and how can I burn the CD with this .rom file and install it. My computer is entirely Gentoo so I can't install windows. There must be a way to update it whitout windows...?

Thanks all
David

Linux Gentoo 2.6.12-r10

bec · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 11:40 pm Post subject:

In this webpage are images of DOS and windows to create bootable floppies:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

you can uncompress them with unzip and create the images with dd
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vanmortel · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 21

No floppy on my laptop...

That's why I'm looking for a way to update from CDROM

Thanks after all

David

Sachankara · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:09 am Post subject: Re: No floppy

What is your purpose of upgrading the bios? Unless it fixes a problem on your computer, I would advise you to stay away from upgrading. Why fix something that already works? Sometimes bios upgrades cause some major f***ups.
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