Matrox BIOS Upgrade under Win2000

[cputnam]

What is the proper way to flash the BIOS for the G400 under Win2000 Pro?

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Gateway Performance 850 - Matrox G400 SH, SB Live! Value, Promise UltraATA 66 & 30GB HD - and Windows 2000 Pro

[Rags]

The same way you would under win9x. Run ubioswin.

Rags

[cputnam]

Thanks, but...I receive an error message when I try to do this.

Dumb question, but, should I be logged in as administrator?

[Rags]

Oh yeah, you have to be logged in as an administrator. It works for me.

[fds]

You might have to copy a sys file to your winnt\system32\drivers folder as well if it still refuses to work.

If you still can't get it to work then quote the error message.

[gbm]

Guys, you don't really expect the BIOS update program to work under Windows, do you???
OK, just kidding, it kind of works... sometimes... on G400 only...

[xortam]

OT: BTW, where is North Hills?

[Rags]

I have done it through windows too many times to count and never had a problem.

[fds]

Me neither. Why reboot when you don't have to?

I don't think they would take the time to develop a BIOS updater utility specifically for Windows if it wasn't safe to update from there.

[Indiana]

Originally posted by fds:
I don't think they would take the time to develop a BIOS updater utility specifically for Windows if it wasn't safe to update from there.

BIOS updates can NEVER be called "safe". Imagine a simple power-down (defective fuse, the workers on the street accidently capping the power-supply or something like this) during the update...
Or even that they company providing you power might be running a MicroSoft OS ;-)

Sure, for the vast majority such things won't ever happen. But then, Murphy's everywhere so I'd advice to only do a bios update if you know the advantages the new version gives you and not just because it's a new version.

[Mr_SpIcEz]

Even if the bios flash update would or does work under windows, any self respecting computer enthousiast would boot in DOS from a floppy to flash the bios.

I would never trust a bios flash done FROM windows.

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