Good job :)

^^

Hmm, this must be an older computer with only a single BIOS, and not something like what Gigabyte has with their Dual BIOS's (secondary BIOS is used to recover the primary BIOS if anything goes bad for those who don't know)

Actually it's not that old. DFI LanParty board. UT... something. :P 775 CPU.
And yeah, I've had a number of Gigabyte boards, partly for that reason.

Go for it. I've never had BIOS upgrade issues, but there is always a first time, and I need to do a BIOS upgrade soon.

My friend tried to flash it from Windows, and admitted to ignoring all the warnings and prompts, and restarting when he thought it was done without checking to make sure it was. :P

Yes, that will do it. Though I'm now having all sorts of fascinating problems trying to get to the point where I can flash my BIOS X3

There are utilities that work fine for flashing the BIOS from Windows. But I reckon he rebooted before it was done. :P

You had to boot off a floppy? o.o Must be a pretty old computer X3

Yeah, it'd probably help others if you posted it ^^ I've had similar issues with the computer not booting up at all, and in some cases it's really hard to find solutions for it : / So the more solutions available in the internet, the more everyone can live happily~~ X3

Actually, booting off a floppy to flash the BIOS is still pretty standard practise. It's not that old a computer; if it was, he would have just upgraded. It's a Core 2 Quad, an Extreme, I think, which means it can be overclocked. It uses Socket 775, which is only a few years old now, I believe.

gewd work :P

^^

NERD!!!!

Psh, you love it :*

How did you do it? I really wouldnt suggest a floppy anymore compaired to a usb stick is much safer. Did you pull the battery or something? In the 486 days you had to rip the bios chip and replace -.-

What I did, after a lot of trial and error, was format a USB stick like a floppy using Linux, and put a FreeDOS boot disk on there. Then I put the flash utility and BIOS file on there, along with a DOS ram disk driver.
You see, luckily the motherboard would boot a simple DOS disk, despite there being no BIOS (just the BIOS loader), and even luckier, it recognised the formatted USB stick as a floppy disk and booted. But I couldn't flash from there, because the flashing process would make the USB stop working. Hence the ram disk. Getting that to work was a bit of a trial, too, because in DOS you're limited to about 300kb unless you install HIMEM (or HIMEM and EMM386).
Since the BIOS wasn't there, EMM386 would hang when trying to load, but HIMEM wouldn't, and luckily the ram disk driver could work with just HIMEM. So, boot up, start the ram disk, format it, copy the flash utility and BIOS image over to the ram disk, and finally run the flash. I was amazed it worked.