Dos... in winxp...

[RainMaQer]

How do I get to dos in winXP to flash my motherboards bios?

[Bmxpunk86pl]

i dont know if this would help but try to use a good old win 98 boot disk. Put it in, boot up, let it load dos, take out the win98 boot disk, then put in the floppy that has ur bios flashind stuff and go from there.

[Emericana]

DONT do what that other guy said. here is how to correctly make a dos bootdisk in xp.

put a floppy in and right click on a: drive in mycomputer and click format.

There should be a check box at the bottom that says "make msdos bootdisk" check that. Format the disk as a msdos bootdisk then put whatever files you need to flash your bios on the disk. Restart the pc w/ the floppy in the disk and walla, you got your bios flashed :D

[Paperclip]

My suggestion is to download this (http://download.viahardware.com/faq/kt7/downloads/Misc/drdflash.exe) . After download just put a blank formatted floppy into your floppy drive and run the file. THe floppy starts your computer as clean as is can be. Ideal for BIOS updating (or downdating if u like :cool: )

Good luck!

[RainMaQer]

Thanks guys... the floppy format with "create ms-dos boot disk" option selected worked... hehe... didn't even think to look there. Thanks again.;)

[Bmxpunk86pl]

prove me wrong emerican

[Ebola]

Originally posted by Bmxpunk86pl
prove me wrong emerican

actually i used a win 98 boot disk when i flashed my old bx6 2. works fine.

[engjohn]

You can hardley ever go wrong with a Win98 boot disk... Will start just about ANY computer....

[David]

I still have my year old Me bootdisk :D

[Zuck Gou :)]

I still have my Win98 bootdisk from like 5 years ago.

I think I'll retire it soon.

[UnseenMenace]

and as a matter of interest various types of boot disks from www.bootdisk.com

[LinkStatic]

Originally posted by Bmxpunk86pl
prove me wrong emerican

You and emerican are both right!!!!! even good 'ol DOS 6.22 will work well when BIOS Flashing.....