We recommend a USB drive because it’s probably be the easiest method on modern hardware.Ī. In the past, this process was performed with bootable floppy disks and CDs. The DOS-based flashing tool is often provided in the BIOS archive you download from the manufacturer’s website, although you may have to download it separately.

In the minimal DOS environment that appears after the reboot, you run the appropriate command-often something like flash.bat BIOS3245.bin-and the tool flashes the new version of the BIOS onto the firmware.

You then restart your computer and boot from the USB drive. When using those tools, you create a DOS live USB drive, and then copy the BIOS-flashing utility and BIOS file to that USB drive. There are also more traditional DOS-based BIOS-flashing tools. Note the line in bold below as an example. I would expect the manufacturer provides some sort of script or program to make use of the contents of the bin file. Hi I would assume you're looking at a procedure similar to one used for updating the BIOS, for example.

Bin file extract software