Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Hardware/hNodes/cNodeVer3/dAssembly/cBios/USBBoot

Timestamp:

Jun 18, 2013, 11:23:02 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

ssugrim

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Hardware/hNodes/cNodeVer3/dAssembly/cBios/USBBoot

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 You will need:
  1. Bios Image (Board Specfic)
- 1. Bios Write Tool (Board Sepcfic)
- 1. HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool (Running on a Windows box, Win7 in my example)
- 1. DOS compatible boot files (Free DOS in this case, Unpacked from the FDOEM.144 Image)
+ 1. Rufus Utility, downloadable [http://rufus.akeo.ie/ here]
 
 '''NOTE:''' The tools and bios files for the LV-67X line are located on the archive(Windows share: \\archive2\pub\Archive\PC\Bios)
 
 To Create the USB Flash Disk:
- 1. Install the HP utility
- 1. Insert USB flash DISK
- 1. Start Utility as Admin
- 1. In the Utility Set:
-  1. Device to you Flash Disk
-  1. File System to FAT
-  1. Volume label to some Meaningful name
-  1. Check Quick Format
-  1. Check Create A DOS startup disk
-  1. Specfiy the directory for the DOS files and point it to the location of the Free DOS boot files[[BR]]
-     [[Image(HPUtility.jpg)]]
- 1. Hit Start
- 1. Once the utility completes (should be quick), Broswe to the newly formatted disk and drag your Bios specific Files onto that disk. 
+ 1. Run the Rufus utility
+    [[Image(Rufus.png)]]
+ 1. Choose options to make the usbflash disk freedos bootable
+ 1. Once complete remount the flash disk and copy the folders containing the update utilities for the motherboards you need to update
+
 
 This disk should now be capable of Flashing your bios. 
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 Once the formatting is done copy the utility to flash your rom and the image to flash it with on to the USB stick.[[BR]]
 On LV678 the BIOS saw USB stick as a hard drive and I raised its priority ahead of the SATA disk and the machine booted into the DOS environment.
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