Why Do We Have to Use a Floppy to Flash BIOS?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday June 29, 2005 @10:30AM from the there's-better-removable-media-out-there dept.

Koskun asks: "With all the time and technology that has come and gone with computers why must we still use a floppy disk to flash the BIOS anymore? Yes, some manufacturers are enabling BIOS flash from within Windows, but there are still a lot of motherboards out there that require you to find a floppy to flash the BIOS. It took me two floppy drives and four floppy disks just to find one of each that worked." Are there reasons why BIOS manufacturers haven't moved BIOS flashing to modern media like USB flash drives, or bootable CD-ROMs?

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Re:That's you are NOT the end user (edit) by Anonymous Coward · 2005-06-29 14:36 · Score: 0, Offtopic

As good an example as any why I metamoderate pretty much as often as I can. Slashdot does not let you edit your posts, so this is the only way to correct or clarify something. To the shitforbrains moderator, doing so is not offtopic! Since I'm replying to this I suppose I won't get a chance to review that mismod, unfortunately, but someone else may.