BIOS iso file can't update?

I own a NP8760 and recently they released a new BIOS update v1.12s. I read around the forum here and so far no owners have problem updating the BIOS, except me.

What I did was, I downloaded the BIOS file from sagernotebook.com and burned the "876bv112s.iso" onto a DVD-RW disc. Then I restart my laptop with that DVD-RW inside, but it won't enter into BIOS menu. Instead it just continues to load Windows. Can I know what is the problem here? I'm not new to updating BIOS but this is the first time an iso file doesn't work when I try updating it.

 

This may be obvious, but do you have the dvd drive set to boot first?

Also, there's a Clevo 1.00.13 out.

 

It happened to me too when i was trying to update d900f bios. burned on a bootable dvd rw, boot order changed to boot from cd/dvd and nothing happened, it just continued loading win.

 

Yes, my dvd drive is set to 1st boot in BIOS. Previously I updated my BIOS to v1.0010s with no issues. Hmm, I'd rather stick with Sager website's BIOS version but thanks for the info

Since another forumer is also facing a similar problem, any way to resolve this?

 

I've had a two similar situations before:

(1) Sager sent me a vBIOs update .iso file (burned myself) that didn't work after several trys. In the end it turned out they had sent me the wrong one. The correct one worked fine.

(2) Making my own .iso BIOS file from zfactor's (forum user) USB bootme BIOS files. It was pretty hard trying to make a bootable cd that was bigger than 2.88MB. I tried a number of different methods that resulted in 4 bad frisbees. Two of those discs were not even acknowledged at boot up and went straight to the OS load.

From my experience a .iso going straight to OS load was due to:

- Not setting the CD/DVD drive to be the first drive to boot.
- A bad .iso file (possible bad from the beginning (unbootable) or corrupted file download).
- A bad .iso burn (usually resulting from burning it at max. speed x24 rather than at the slowest speed x2 or x4).
- It wasn't an actual .iso file. Was actually a .rar file which had the .iso file inside, but was labelled as a .iso in the beginning.

I've only used CD-R discs, not sure if using CD-RW have some quirky thing about them, but rewritables should be fine for BIOS. Has been done before.

 

i was trying to update the BIOS from dvd-rw but somehow it always load win instead from bios update. is it a problem of a dvd medium?

 

If you guys just use a USB drive, you'll save yourself a lot of trouble.

 

Burning a BIOS .iso file to a cd and flashing from that is usually the fastest and easiest method. If I had an .iso file already I would use that method rather than the USB method.

@ rascall: I'm not sure if it is the media or not. I've never flashed from a rewritable or DVD-disc before, but a DVD should work fine. Did you download the .iso yourself? If so I would download a new copy in case the first got corrupted, and burn it again at the slowest speed (if that is optional on your software) if possible on a CD-R.

I use UltraISO, which is available as a free trial program. If you double click on your .iso file it will automatically open the program, but may look like it has no files in it (I think this is because Clevo/Sager use a method that hide these files, but they are there). However at the top it should say CD/DVD bootable. That means the .iso is bootable, and then burn at low speed with the verify box ticked.