Not all users of personal computers know that updated versions of the firmware for different devices are not published by chance. Each new model, for all its uniqueness, has certain flaws that cannot be detected in several months, and the firmware versions are used to update the device configuration.
Necessary
- - video adapter;
- - firmware files;
- - floppy disk 3, 5;
- - a special program.
Instructions
Step 1
Before starting the firmware, you need to create a copy of the current firmware of your video adapter. This can be done using the software provided on standard discs that come with the hardware. The files of the current firmware can always be downloaded from the official website of the card manufacturer, where you can also find the latest firmware.
Step 2
Then you will need a floppy disk with which you can flash the devices. As a rule, it can be copied on the technical support forums or on the official website. It should be noted that at this step it is worth considering this issue very carefully, since the error could cost a new graphics card.
Step 3
Restart your computer, enter the BIOS menu by pressing the Delete key. In the Boot section, put Floppy as the first boot loader in the list and press the F10 key. After the reboot, the data will be automatically read from the floppy disk. Enter the command flash 123.rom. Instead of flash, specify the name of the program for the firmware, and instead of 123.rom, the name of the previous BIOS version. When the Not found message appears, you need to reboot and use a different program.
Step 4
If you did not see this message on the screen, the program was selected correctly. To confirm the continuation of the firmware process, answer positively by entering Yes. After a while, the missing image will reappear, during these few seconds the firmware process was performed. Now all that remains is to reboot the computer, change the BIOS boot option to the hard drive and rejoice at the successful completion of the operation.
Step 5
If the firmware operation ended in failure, you can only find out about this by a blank dark screen, use the old version of the firmware that was saved until the floppy was created.
