Evo 500: how easily Flash of the bios on the computer

I have trouble understanding how to Flash the bios of the computer, I put up.  Can someone give me a step by step method how?

Let me offer you some general tips to make the updates to the BIOS...

Caution: an upgrade of BIOS defective or broken, unlike an upgrade of the driver, can leave your PC in an unusable state - essentially, turning it into a "brick" electrick

Thus, before any update of the BIOS, ensure that the following TWO are met:
(1) you have a way to save on the current BIOS of some media that allows you then to restore it, if necessary
(2) you have a way to boot the PC so that you can restore the BIOS since the recorded media, in which case the BIOS update fails or trashes otherwise your PC

So, as long as the application of updated BIOS provides you with a way to do both 1 and 2), then flashing the BIOS is safe, because if the PC are lost, you will be able to rely on 2) to restore the original, working, BIOS.

In addition, if you do this on a laptop, at least have the power adapter is plugged when you do that.  Not sure how many people try this on battery power that have the battery before the upgrade flash is done!

Good luck

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