I have seen countless posts on these forums concerning failed BIOS flashing attempts, and most recently the difficulty people are having with the P67 BIOS flashing. I always recommend flashing a BIOS from DOS as it is unquestionably the safest way to go about it. Flashing your BIOS from within windows is inherently the most dangerous way to attempt a flash. There are many things going on in the background when you flash from Windows, any number of which are capable of causing a problem. While flashing from within the Windows environment may work for most, I say why risk it? It is true that newer boards have multiple BIOS's that you can switch to should a flash go wrong, but once you get the hang of the method I'm about to describe, you will use this method from now on...... trust me!
Inventory Required

• USB Flash Drive
• The BIOS File
• HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, V2.1.8
• Win98 Boot Files

Regarding the above list, I'll assume you know what a USB flash drive is and just about any kind will work. You can even use a SD card or similar which can be plugged in to your card reader if you have one. For those of you that have the FTW version of the P67 you can even use the onboard CF reader, provided of course you actually have a CF Memory Card plugged in to it.
 
The BIOS file you need can be downloaded from EVGA's web site, usually in a .zip format.
 
That brings us to the HP tool and the Win98 boot files needed. I have made both available for download on my server and you can obtain them by clicking HERE. Just save the file to your desktop, then go ahead and extract it to your desktop as well. Once the file is extracted, go ahead and double click it to get inside. Once there you will see a file called SP27608 which is the actual HP USB Format Utility and a folder called win98boot.
 
At this point we need to install the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool, so go ahead and double click that file and install the program. Follow the on screen instructions, it's pretty self explanatory. Once the installation is finished the installer may or may not put an icon on your desktop to start the utility. If you did not get an icon on your desktop you can launch the utility by  going to start/all programs/Hewlett-Packard Company/HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool.

 
Go ahead and open the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool and you should see this Window.

 
From the "Device" drop down menu at the top, make sure your USB flash device is selected. From the "File System" drop down menu choose FAT32.

 
The next steps are critical and where most people go wrong. First of all NEVER choose "Quick Format", we want to do a complete format. Make sure you click the "Create a DOS startup disk" and click the "using DOS system files located at" radio button as well.

 
Now we need to tell the HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool where these DOS files are located. If you remember they are inside of the extracted folder describe above. So, choose the browse button and navigate to that win98boot folder which should be on your desktop if you followed the directions. Simply highlight the "win98boot" folder and click ok, you do not want to navigate inside of the win98boot folder.

 
You should now see the path to the "win98boot" folder in the bottom box. If everything looks good, go ahead and press the "Start" button to begin the formatting process.
 

Ok, I think I got her finished.....LOL

Yes, thanks.  It took me several hours last year to find all the files and build my own USB stick for doing this. 

This is a good post that should be a sticky!

It maybe a good idea to reset your Bios to default before any flash.

Nice.  Tried to do this before and gave up when it seemed too complicated.  Now it seems easy.

Nice write up, if you notice its now linked on the new driver page 

so this should work to flash bios for pretty much any mobo?

Another thing I noticed is that when the CF slot is enabled in the BIOS I was not able to boot off my SSD.  I think the JMircon CF controller is interfering.  I have an SSD boot drive and 3x500GB RAID 0 for storage.
 
The CF method rocked when building my system.
 
wxmanunr
 

Lvcoyote
An update to the original post regarding using the onboard CF card reader on the FTW version motherboard. You can use it but your CF card will need to be formatted in a card reader or installed in something other than the onboard CF slot.  For some reason when you open the HP Format Utility it does not see the CF card if it's plugged in to the motherboard's onboard slot. I took my CF card and popped it in my front panel card reader, and it formatted and made a bootable drive from it no problem.  I then put it back in the Motherboard's CF slot and it boots from it just fine.  You only have to do this once and you can simply delete the old BIOS files and copy over the new ones next time you want to flash from it.  As long as you do not format it it will remain bootable.

Follow the instructions and try again, flashing from the command prompt is obviously not the right way to do it.

I am mistaken, it wasn't the Command Prompt. It was in DOS when the motherboard was loading from the USB. What is there that I could have done. The computer wouldn't boot from after the update? The instructions didn't say anything other than putting "Y" to continue?
 
Thanks for your help,
 
Eric

Try booting up from the USB stick following the guide here, once booted throw the switch to BIOS 2 and see what happens. Don't start any flashing procedures until the switch is moved to #2, I've never tried this before but it wont hurt anything to try.  Let us know if it works.

If you switch the BIOS with the computer off it wont boot so you will not be able to get to the dos prompt.  This is why you need to boot the system with the BIOS switch set to a BIOS you know boots up. Once the system has booted from the USB device and you are sitting at the dos prompt, before doing anything else throw the switch to #2 and try flashing it.  I don't know if you are familiar with the Hot-Flash procedure that used to be pretty popular back in the day but basically that is what you are doing by throwing the BIOS switch while the system is running.  Just remember that once the system is booted the BIOS really isn't doing anything anymore and you should be able to throw the switch to #2 with no ill effects.... Let us know!

OK,,, I flashed the BIOS # 2 (broken one) the way you said, I turned on and boot the PC to DOS with BIOS # 1 (the known good one) then once to DOS I troll the sw to BIOS # 2, I started the flash process, after reboot WOLALA, BIOS 2 not boot no problem (REPAIRED) and I checked BIOS version was all so updated to 679 1.19 so I guest that mean was been updated from 1.13 successfully, so now all 3 my BIOS chips working again, I'm so happy that I know I didn't damage the mobo at all, good to know now this procedure for recover broken BIOS, thanks a million man.
if my BIOS wasn't damage I don't need to sw the BIOS after he system is booted right? I can sw to the BIOS I want to flash before turning on the PC! I'm right? so I know for the next time I have to flash my BIOS, I will defenitlly never again flash from windows, since it went wrong and mobo wasn't booting from the flashed bios (thank to EVGA for put 3 BIOS chip, I was able to keep using my PC without RMA my mobo), your way is fantastic man thanks again, and regarding using a USB SD card reader it's no problem @ all
 
best regards Dominick
 
Case: CoolerMaster HAF932 fulltower
MOBO: EVGA P67 FTW with Evgauge & ECP Pannel
CPU: INTEL i7 2600k sandy bridge
CPU cooler: CORSAIR H60 waterblock
memory: CORSAIR VENGEANCE RED 2x4 (8GB total)
Video adapter: 2X EVGA GTX470 superclocked in SLI
PSU: OCZ ZX1000W modular 80+Gold
HD: 1X WD caviar Blue 500Gb 7200rpm sata
DVD: LG DVD-RW 24X SATA
monitor: SAMSUNG 27” LCD SyncMaster P2770HD monitor+HDTV combo
Keyboard: Logitec G15
mouse: Microsoft intellipont X5 2000bpi
gamepad: belkin n52te
 

no problem, thank to you for teach me that trick, understood why I trolled the sw after system post, because the BIOS wasn't booting anymore, I was thinking that chip was death, now I understand that was just a flash error that made that BIOS not working anymore, I'm not a pc expert but I'm pretty smart on learning things pretty fast. THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!