Flashing BIOS in Win XP

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Luie

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• Nov 30, 2001

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Heard there is no DOS in Windows XP.
(I know this is not true) [well, maybe not...]

How do you people flash it then?

 

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• Nov 30, 2001

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you flash the bios before winxp boots, like make a bootable floopy with the bios update (which most do automaticly) then go into the bios and switch the boot sequence to A:, c:...... pop the disk in and let it go.

 

Kendan

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• Nov 30, 2001

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you use a boot disk. the one I use DrDOS 7.x. you can find it here:
http://www.bootdisk.com/. hope this helps.

 

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Luie

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Thanks for the replies.
I just flashed the newest bios to my epprom chip.
Thanks again.

 

Maximus Nickus

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• Dec 1, 2001

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I copy all the Update files to an empty floppy, (or CD) use the Windows Boot Disk, choose Command Prompt (shift+f5) then put in the floppy and there ya go.

More chance of being succesfull as it doesn't load anything!!!!

P.S. I also unplug the HDD.

Nick