Re: Windows XP PC question

From: Ross Durie (rdurie_at_caverock.net.nz)
Date: 12/12/04 

Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 22:30:23 +1300

On second thoughts I think your mother has failed to educate you on more
than sex education. Find a 12 year old girl and she should put you right re:
what the BIOS does and what the operating system does.

P.S. Your comments are truely the biggest load of twaddle I've ever read on
this newsgroup. 

--
Ross
"John" <johnw_94020@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:johnw_94020-91464E.00543312122004@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Do newer PC's yes with XP still have DOS instructions written on their
> BIOS chip?  I have not tried it yet, but is it possible to wipe out XP
> on a newer Dell or whatever and get back to a plain DOS prompt?  Most PC
> people claim that XP/2000 whatever does not have any DOS below its OS
> like Windows 98 or have any DOS instructions on its ROM BIOS chip but I
> do not believe it.  I have not tried inserting a DOS boot floppy, and
> testing it for myself.   In my 98 machine I can boot from a floppy, wipe
> out the hard drive, partition and then do a format C: /s and the machine
> will boot with only DOS.  I wonder if XP works the same.
>
> I guess my main comparison would be the classic Mac OS which is full GUI
> and no command prompt. On my Mac for exmaple, I can wipe out the hard
> drive with my boot CD, and then install the boot files with the CD and
> the Mac boots into a GUI. I doubt XP is a full GUI and does not have
> command prompt instructions in BIOS, but perhaps I am wrong.  I doubt
> PC's can ever move away from any DOS instructions in their ROM BIOS, but
> maybe I am wrong.
>
>
> John

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