[CLUE-Tech] Updating Intel Motherboards under Linux

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Kevin Cullis wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I'm not a hardware person, but I have an Intel SE440BX motherboard and I
>found on Intel's site that there are some "updates" to the motherboard. 
>The file, SE2BIO17.exe, I've downloaded, but since I've never done an
>update, how do I do it in Linux?
>

See

    http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/standardbios.htm

Looks like you'll have to find a system where you can make a DOS 
bootable disk and extract the file to it so that you can use it to boot 
your system.

But, unless there are compelling reasons, it's generally not a good idea 
to do BIOS upgrades.

BOF