I'm trying to update the bios on my motherboard using the cd method. I burned the iso provided on the EVGA site with image burning software, twice (using nero and imgburn, discs were regular CD-R). I go into the bios and make cdrom the boot device, and restart my computer. It starts booting from cdrom, and the text that appears is "Loading Caldera DR-DOS" and then it stops and won't take any input. The underscore "_" is blinking but i can't type anything, the only thing i can do is restart the computer.

So i'm wondering what i'm doing wrong here, or if there is any other way of doing this using a cd, as i don't have a floppy and have read bad things about using the software from within windows.

I haven't updated the bios before (it says it's 6.00 version) and i'm trying to update to P33

Thanks m8, if it works i'll just have to borrow/ buy a floppy drive somewhere.
Never thought i'd touch a floppy again! :D

Are these self built systems or something prebuilt like a Alienware system?

One thing you can try is the ALT+F2 method. On boot hit those 2 keys and it should go right into the BIOS flash for you.

Also Erik to find your BIOS version look on the boot screen there will be a line on boot (6A61ITT2) Release number 691N0P**. The ** is you BIOS version.
If it goes to fast to see hit Pause on keyboard to halt boot, enter or pause again to then continue to boot.
Which version you have and what CPU?

For example in this pic they are using P26 BIOS.

Pretty sure the 680i has no way to keep a backup of the BIOS so that is probably why it was hanging, it had no place like a second BIOS chip to back it up to. LOL

Flashing really is not that hard, can can be a major bummer if it fails for any reason. Then you'd need to at least get a new BIOS chip.

Why it would not work from CD in your case I have no clue as I always use IMGburn and never have had any problems like you stated.
Just wondering if maybe you have some disks that just will not work well with either making them bootable or maybe you were burning them too fast. Did you use the verifying option to make sure they burned correctly?
I've had some LG disks a few years ago that just would not work for burning bootable disks for some reason.

Glad you got it all worked out though and it should be a while before you need to flash a BIOS at least as P33 is the last BIOS the 680i will have and that is like almost 2 years old itself. LOL.