robotgeek » reference http://www.robotgeek.org/blog Still only human Fri, 20 Aug 2010 01:31:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 USB Booting for Bios Update http://www.robotgeek.org/blog/2008/06/22/usb-booting-for-bios-updates/ http://www.robotgeek.org/blog/2008/06/22/usb-booting-for-bios-updates/#comments Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:36:22 +0000 robotgeek http://www.robotgeek.org/blog/?p=187 I bought some extra RAM for my machine (it has 4GB of RAM now). However, the computer would not recognize the extra RAM. So, off I went to my motherboard manufacturer’s site and looked up possible BIOS updates.

And then, the question is…how do you update your bios without a floppy disk. I did not have cd-rw’s at hand, so I had to get it working with a usb flash drive.

After lot of research, I found a

  1. HP Drive Key Booting Utility
  2. A bootable cdrom image from bootdisk.com

Installed the utility, and picked the bootable image (.img format). And I was off to the races….

I wish I had run into this page earlier.

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