Hi guys,

I have a MSI K7T266 Pro2 motherboard which is behaving very strange: it will only boot if I do a clear CMOS operation before each start, otherwise I receive the standard no video detected on monitor with a black screen and nothing happens. This is very annoying and I tried differend remedies: replacing the PSU, replacing the video card, replacing the memory, replacing the battery. The only 2 things left are the CPU (Duron 1300 Mhz) and flashing the BIOS. The present version of the BIOS is the the very first version for this board - 3.0 and I saw that the latest version on MSI website is the 3.7 version.
Now my question is which is the best/more secure way to flash the new version of the BIOS without destroying the motherboard/BIOS chip in a failed updating operation?
On MSI website they recommend the M-Flash utility but this board is too old for this utility and hence I have to use other ways. Is it necessary to use a floppy disk or it can be done if I copy the BIOS utility on the HDD? Can you recommend the safest way to do the flashing of the BIOS?
The computer has the floppy disk, optical drive, USB and network/internet connection as means of entering/extracting data, so even a USB stick could be used for the job.
Thanks in advance for any advice!