Re: Bios update

From: Richard Urban (richardurbanREMOVETHIS_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/31/04 

Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:02:28 -0500

Go into help and support. Type in "make a bootable floppy". Make sure you
are on-line when you do this. Read what the knowledge base has to say! 

-- 
Regards:
Richard Urban
aka  Crusty (-: Old B@stard :-)
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:1172801c416c0$abcf7bd0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>You flash the BIOS before the OS boots, you can make a
>>bootable floppy in XP by putting a blank floppy in the
> drive
>>and selecting the option to make a bootable floppy.  Then
>>copy the Flash files to the floppy. You may need to
> extract
>>the exe file to the floppy.
>>
>>
>><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>news:15e4101c416b5$17575eb0$a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>|
>>| >-----Original Message-----
>>| >You need a W98 boot floppy to which you copy the Flash
>>| file
>>| >(you will probably need to extract the exe file and
> copy
>>| >those files) to the floppy, then set the BIOS to boot
>>| from
>>| >the floppy.
>>| >Be sure to read the FAQ and be sure your power is
>>| reliable
>>| >(a UPS is recommended).
>>| >
>>| >
>>| >"john" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>>| >message news:15e3301c416b2$9f06cfb0
> $a301280a@phx.gbl...
>>| >| I want update my bios. I have a k7vm4 motherboard
> from
>>| >| ASROCK. and they told me to download a FLash.exe and
>>| the
>>| >| update but when I run the flash from dos it give me
>>| this
>>| >|
>>| >| A:\>FLASH K7VM4_2.40
>>| >| &#9658; Error 18 - Chipset/Flash part isn't available.
>>The
>>| >| function will be invalid.
>>| >|
>>| >| What do I do.
>>| >
>>| >
>>| >.
>>| >I need a win 98 boot disk even if i have xp pro
>>
>>
>>.
>>How do i make a bootable floppy. do i hit format and
> thats it

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