There are a number of ways it could be done - you can use a floppy drive (how I would do it) you could burn a bootable CD (if you have a CD burner and media) which is a bit more work, but it does avoid using a floppy drive, or you could save the BIOS image to your hard drive, then boot to DOS using a floppy, boot to DOS from Win98, or from from a DOS image on a CD then navigate to the folder where the flash utility and the BIOS file are and flash it that way.

I'd use Awardflash - since you have a 6.00 BIOS I'd assume that anything 6.00 or newer should work for your application. https://www.wimsbios.com/awardflasher.jsp#gsc.tab=0

But if it were me, I'd format a floppy, maybe boot from it a couple of times to make sure everything works, then update it that way.

Here's a tutorial on making a BIOS update CD. https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/gu … from-cd.139390/

It can boot from USB, right?

In such case i usually just make DOS boot thumb drive using rufus, copy the bios and flasher there, boot from it and update.

Dump the original bios before updating, just in case.

Thank you everyone.
I tried to use USB flash drive, Rufus to create a freedos boot and used award flash.
It worked to boot and etc but when I was in award flash I say yes to make a backup of the original bios and put the name ORIGINAL.bin however when I put ok the award flash crashed. Any ideas why this happened? I'm afraid of trying again and the program crash after clearing the bios or something like that.

Is this system stable? Capacitors are good, you're using a recognized CPU? You haven't mentioned having a chip programmer; assuming that you don't, a bad flash resulting in a dead board is something you'd prefer to avoid. Maybe run Memtest86 if in doubt?

If you have it set up with a hard drive you could try the method I mentioned above where you save the BIOS and the flash utility to a folder on your hard drive and boot to DOS and run it from there.

As mentioned make sure the hardware is stable, otherwise you could also try msdos instead of freedos, i've had mixed success with freedos with some old flash tools.

The archive page for Abit KV7 bios: http://web.archive.org/web/20051119114041/htt … ies=1&model=125
http://web.archive.org/web/20060327015827/htt … s/kv7/kv720.exe
The Award flash inside the file is v8.5, try that.

the system is stable, tried with a new flash drive. it crashes again. every time i try to save a backup of the old bios. i put the name ORIGINAL.BIN, press enter and crashes.

Horun wrote on 2025-08-24, 09:58:

The archive page for Abit KV7 bios: http://web.archive.org/web/20051119114041/htt … ies=1&model=125
http://web.archive.org/web/20060327015827/htt … s/kv7/kv720.exe
The Award flash inside the file is v8.5, try that.

i'll try this one, thank you

Horun wrote on 2025-08-24, 09:58:

The archive page for Abit KV7 bios: http://web.archive.org/web/20051119114041/htt … ies=1&model=125
http://web.archive.org/web/20060327015827/htt … s/kv7/kv720.exe
The Award flash inside the file is v8.5, try that.

iT WORKED ! Thank you! my bios is now updated! =D

It seems this mainboard can boot via PXE network.
In this case, another solution could have been to boot a floppy image from a Linux machine with a tftp/dhcp server.
Very useful to have when we deal with old computers.

Good news that you solved the issue!

I've had issues with trying to use a too old or too new version of Awardflash, but that always resulted in errors such as "File not recognized" or "Unknown flash type" because it doesn't recognize the EEPROM. Crashing when trying to save a BIOS file is a new one on me, though not that surprising.

The Wim's BIOS Awardflash archive is nice, but without dates, it's a bit of a guessing game unless you have it memorized. It was (of course) much simpler when you could go to the manufacturer's site and they would have the correct version right there with the BIOS. I like how specific Abit are about it, actually splitting between revisions of Awardflash.

ah yes, thank you everyone for the help. I'm testing a senpron 2600+ and a 2500+ lets see if i can keep 200 of fsb on those guys hahaha. I posted this build with an atlhonxp 2600+ barton but i didnt want to overclock it because they're super difficulty to find here, but 462 senprons are dirty cheap. Now i can test some OC with them! =)