Flashing the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) of your motherboard to a newer version can give support for new lines of processors and features as they are released. It can also enhance the stability and performance of your motherboard and offer new options for timing and overclocking the system. But it is also thought to be an extremely complicated operation full of potential perils for your PC. If something goes wrong, it is quite difficult and troublesome to remedy your faults, so how to flash the motherboard BIOS safely and easily? Here I will introduce a very simple trick to upgrade the BIOS of your motherboard (take Award BIOS as an example).

Above all, if your computer is overclocking, you need to adjust the clock to its normal state. The next, you should disable all items of the Power Management in the BIOS, and disable the System BIOS Cacheable as well as Video BIOS Cacheable.

Then in DOS insert a formatted floppy disk to your floppy drive, copy all system files to Disk (A :) as dictate "SYS C** A**", you also need to copy the AwardFlash utility (in the disk came with your motherboard) and the latest BIOS files (named it as newbios.bin) to Disk (A :), finally create an autoexec.bat as below:

@echo off (press Enter key)

if exist oldbios.bin goto awdflash.exe newbios.bin oldbios.bin/py/sy/cc/cp/cd/sb/rgoto (press Enter key)

end awdflash.exe oldbios.bin/py/sy/cc/cp/cd/sb/r end

Now your floppy disk has files including Awardfalsh.exe, newbios.bin, autoexec.bat, msdos.sys, io.sys and command.com. Your computer will flash the BIOS automatically on boot, and if the flash fails, you also can use this disk to get back the original BIOS. But note that the version of your AwardFlash utility should be V7.70 or above. Take out your disk from the floppy drive when the flash is over, and then enter the BIOS to readjust its settings.