BIOS Upgrade Under XP

[Drazick]

Hello.

I don't have a floppy drive.

How can I upgrade my BIOS? Is there any trick? A DOS Boot Cd?

Something?

Thanks.

[SC00BS]

Most bios can be updated use a flash program directly from windows.

[Drazick]

It's pretty old motherboard.

At the manufactor site (Pc-Chips) It has no such utility.

Is there any by pass?

DOS like bootable cd?

[SC00BS]

http://h18000.www1.hp.com/support/files/se...load/21478.html

or yes you can create a dos bootable CD. Get images from www.bootdisk.com

[Drazick]

Any free alternative to bootdisk? It has the solution but it costs money I don't have.

[diesel_98a]

if u have the ability to boot from usb device, could use a usb floppy drive.

[prathapml]

If you have a CD-writer and Nero (as CD-burning software), you can make a bootable DOS CD instead of floppy:

1. Start nero burning ROM. Don't use the wizard, and don't use "Nero Express".

2. File >> New

3. In the dialog-box that comes up, scroll down the left-pane, choose CD-ROM (Boot)

4. Now, on the right side's "Boot" tab, choose the "Image File" option.

5. So now your boot-sector is enabled, click "New" button on the top-right.

6. Add whatever files you want to the CD. (your new BIOS, or whatever)

7. Burn CD, that's all.

If you have problems:

You can download latest nero from here.

You might need a different Image file if your CD-drive is not supported - if so, download the boot-sector from bootdisk.com as SC00BS said.

While writing the CD, for best compatibility with older CD-ROMs, close any multi-sessions on disk, and write at 24x or lower speed.

Hoping this helps...

[Drazick]

If you have a CD-writer and Nero (as CD-burning software), you can make a bootable DOS CD instead of floppy:

1.  Start nero burning ROM. Don't use the wizard, and don't use "Nero Express".

2.  File >> New

3.  In the dialog-box that comes up, scroll down the left-pane, choose CD-ROM (Boot)

4.  Now, on the right side's "Boot" tab, choose the "Image File" option.

5.  So now your boot-sector is enabled, click "New" button on the top-right.

6.  Add whatever files you want to the CD. (your new BIOS, or whatever)

7.  Burn CD, that's all.

Will it give me an access to my hard drive on DOS kinda mode?

Hard drive mode will enable me to put 700MB on the disc?

Thanks.

[prathapml]

Yes, it will give you access to your hard-drive. But only for DOS-readable FAT32 partitions. I mean, NTFS partitions created for XP won't be usable in DOS.

And its recommended to not use Hard-drive emulation (what you called as hard-drive mode) for the floppy-disk's boot-sector. You can fill-up the rest of the space on the CD (whatever remains after the boot-sector was loaded) anyway - that will be close to 700 MB.