I am havin' problems with my floppy drive. It's hooked up properly, its recognized by windows and says its working properly, seems my settings are correct in bios, and even tried a new floppy. Everytime i put in a disk and try to use it, I get a "need to be formatted". I try to format and I get, "can't format".
Anyway, I was wondering if you can flash your Bios with a CD instead? Since my floppy won't work. I need to upgrade my Bios if I want to put a faster processor in.
-Asus A7A 266
-AMD Thunderbird 1.0 @ 1.1
Flash Bios from a CD ?
Flash Bios from a CD ?
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You shouldn't have ANYTHING installed in the background during a BIOS Flash. In order to read from a CD from DOS you need to install CD drivers and MSCDEX.
It's probably okay to just boot from the CD, and then run the flash bios update from the hard drive.
If it's a Win98 system just boot to the safe mode DOS prompt (press F8 before the Win98 logo and select the "Safe Mode DOS Prompt" menu selection). This boots clean into DOS. Then run the Flash BIOS utility from the hard drive.
It's probably okay to just boot from the CD, and then run the flash bios update from the hard drive.
If it's a Win98 system just boot to the safe mode DOS prompt (press F8 before the Win98 logo and select the "Safe Mode DOS Prompt" menu selection). This boots clean into DOS. Then run the Flash BIOS utility from the hard drive.
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XP doesn't have DOS.
Sorry dude, you need a floppy or a spare drive that's had the DOS boot files put on it.
Man, are you SURE your floppy is dead? You mentioned it was working from Windows. If it works in Windows it HAS to work in DOS.
Did you try changing the cable? I've seen a situation that was the reverse - would work in DOS but not in windows because of a bad cable.
Sorry dude, you need a floppy or a spare drive that's had the DOS boot files put on it.
Man, are you SURE your floppy is dead? You mentioned it was working from Windows. If it works in Windows it HAS to work in DOS.
Did you try changing the cable? I've seen a situation that was the reverse - would work in DOS but not in windows because of a bad cable.
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