Important Note: Where FLASH895.exe has been replaced by FLASHSPI.exe by Gigabyte
Anyone who flashes their bios "the good old way" , with a created floppy boot disk and the relevant bios, flash app and autoexec.bat file copied over, that Gigabyte have started to use (at least for my board and latest bios) a New Flash utility (FLASHSPI.exe).
At first it can be a bit disconcerting, because from the moment you boot the PC, with of course the floppy drive set as a bootable drive in the bios, the new Flash Bios Update Application (dos) needs
NO input from you.
Normally on "traditional" Flash Bios update applications (dos) when booting from a floppy, you would be presented with the loaded Flash Bios Update application screen and would have to manually select the bios image and initiate the flash by "OK". Also some of these Flash Bios Update applications would allow you to save a copy of the current bios image file.
However this new GB Flash Bios update Application requires no user input whatsoever - so
don't remove the floppy disk after boot until the Flash has completed. It's not as though you would be just stopping a Flash Bios update Application from loading, ie before loading up the bios image manually.
Gigabyte should have warned users about this, as for years I've always been used to seeing the loaded up Flash bios update Application waiting for me to select a bios image and initiate the flash process manually (as per FLASH895.exe). If i wanted to change my mind, or realised I had the wrong bios image on the floppy disk, I could just stop right there and close the Flash bios update application - no harm done.
However their new Flash bios update application/utility doesn't allow that. It appears to be supplied and configured in "silent" mode.
So be careful!
Info:-
FLASH895.exe dated 27 june 2006
FLASHSPI.exe dated 23 may 2008