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AFUDOS boot floppy
Name: TrickYAH Date: June 9, 2006 at 15:39:07 Pacific OS: Windows XP CPU/Ram: 3700+/ 2gb Product: self-built
Comment:
Hi,
I want to update my asus board's BIOS... The manual says i have to do this with a floppy under DOS mode.. So i grabbed a few floppys and put one in.. formatted it, and made a boot disk...
Now the problem is; after i made the boot disk, there is not enough space left for my BIOS!
I did exactly what the manual said, "put a High Density floppy in your 3,5 drive, format, make a bootdisk.. and then you should have atleast 1024MB left for the bios.rom"... well after i make a bootdisk i only have 868 kB left... if i try to copy the bios, it will give me an error saying the disk is full.... I also tried 3 other floppy's but they're all the same..
Name: jessejames Date: June 9, 2006 at 15:52:35 Pacific
Reply:
You make an MS-DOS Boot Floppy from within XP
Right Click A: Drive in My Computer
FORMAT
CREATE AN MS_DOS.........
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Response Number 2
Name: TrickYAH Date: June 9, 2006 at 16:03:13 Pacific
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Yeah i did.. but, like i said.. when it's done there is'n't enough room left for the BIOS.ROM
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Response Number 3
Name: StuartS Date: June 9, 2006 at 17:05:53 Pacific
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You can delete everything on the floppy disk except command.com. io.sys and msdos.sys. That should give you enough room for the BIOS code and still retain a bootable floppy disk.
Stuart
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Response Number 4
Name: Badboy Date: June 9, 2006 at 17:42:31 Pacific
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Can you put the BIOS file on a second floppy and insert it after you launch the BIOS flash utility?
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Response Number 5
Name: DAVEINCAPS Date: June 9, 2006 at 18:47:12 Pacific
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It doesn't need to be an XP bootdisk. You can use a 9X disk or even earlier msdos. As StuartS says, it should just have the system files--io.sys, msdos.sys and command.com--on it plus the flasher and the upgrade file.
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