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boot up with dos on XP machine
Name: terry Date: February 17, 2002 at 18:21:02 Pacific
Comment:
need to run a update on Bios and requires dos... how do I boot in dos with my xp machine
Name: Hmmm Date: February 17, 2002 at 19:10:23 Pacific
Reply:
Why don't you use a bootdisk from bootdisk.com?
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Response Number 2
Name: Dex M. Date: February 17, 2002 at 19:40:50 Pacific
Reply:
Terry, you know to access the BIOS you dont even need a hard drive? Usually you hit a button after POST (something like F8 or F10 or Ctrl + Alt + Esc). Try that first.
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Response Number 3
Name: Hmmm Date: February 17, 2002 at 22:01:54 Pacific
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He needs to UPDATE the Bios. To do this you DO NOT enter the Bios.
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Response Number 4
Name: HH Date: February 18, 2002 at 05:14:29 Pacific
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Most BIOS updates that you download are FLASH updates, You create a Bootdisk from the download, then boot and update your BIOS from that disk in one single action.
What Dex M says is half right. You do not need a Hard drive, But you do need a bootable Floppy Drive. So check that your boot order is A - C or something like that before you start.
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Response Number 5
Name: Hmmm Date: February 18, 2002 at 11:26:37 Pacific
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HH you are right. Sorry Dex.
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Response Number 6
Name: shtonkalot Date: February 22, 2002 at 04:24:56 Pacific
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Just format a floppy within XP and make the disk a MS-DOS startup disk. Right click on the drive icon for A: (or whatever your floppy drive is) choose format and tick the box for the startup disk. You'll then have to copy the BIOS rom and flah util to the same drive.
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