All, quick hint on easy BIOS upgrades for Intel boards. If you're having issues with not getting an OS install and you don't want to make a bootable USB thumbdrive . . . don't.

All you have to do is download the DOS image from their site, uncompress it to somewhere. Next put the .BIO file that gets created and throw it on a thumbdrive. After that remove the BIOS Config jumper on the board, plug in the thumbdrive and wait. Then wait more. Sooner or later (like up to 3 minutes or so) you'll see activity on the thumbdrive. After even more waiting you'll see some feedback on the monitor about the update. Most thumbdrives are supported (though not all). Hope that saves people some time at some point, and removes the need to install an old OS just to update the BIOS.