DVD/CD Firmware Upgrading

Revision as of 10:00, 27 August 2007

Windows

Check out your Optical Drive Manufacturers Website

Linux

Binflash (formerly called Uniflash) - Supports native firmware flashing of NEC, Optiarc and NEC/Optiarc compatible drives

Possible (UNTESETED - MAY STUFF UP) solutions for other drives include:

Booting using FreeDOS (GPL) and DOS flash utility - Guide here

NB:

  * You'll most likely need 2 optical drives and need to put the CD in the drive you don't want to flash.
  * Use the 2.88 CDROM Image with the config.sys file from the OEM image

Wine and Windows flash utility

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 *Booting using [http://www.freedos.org/ FreeDOS] (GPL) and DOS flash utility - Guide [http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html here]
-<b>NB:</b> You most likely need 2 optical drives and need to put the CD in the drive you don't want to flash OR a motherboard that supports booting from USB. Also read the comments on for details on making a CD-ROM version of the guide.
+<b>NB:</b>
+   * You'll most likely need 2 optical drives and need to put the CD in the drive you don't want to flash.
+   * Use the [http://www.fdos.org/bootdisks/autogen/FDSTD.288.gz 2.88 CDROM Image] with the config.sys file from the OEM image
 *[http://www.winehq.org/ Wine] and Windows flash utility
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