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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista
Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? Thanks for any advice Ealadi |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
ealadi wrote:
My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? That (the Vista 'upgrade') is generally considered a mistake. Read the following URLs: http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.txt http://www.securityfocus.com/columnists/423 http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0702.html#8 http://www.aaxnet.com/editor/edit043.html -- [mail]: Chuck F (cbfalconer at maineline dot net) [page]: http://cbfalconer.home.att.net Try the download section. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
On Fri, 30 May 2008 23:41:29 -0700 (PDT), ealadi
wrote: My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? Thanks for any advice Ealadi You need create a bootable diskette and copy the BIOS update to this diskette. Insert in the diskette to the drive before booting up. If the system fail to boot up from the diskette, change the boot sequent to diskette from the BIOS. If you don't understand the above, read the motherboard manual. p/s Any reason to do the BIOS update? If you don't any any reason to do it, then my advise - don't it. If anything went wrong, your motherboard will end up useless. -- WebWalker email: |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
ealadi wrote:
My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? Thanks for any advice Ealadi The third entry down, on this page, has DOS boot disks for BIOS flashing. http://www.bootdisk.com/ Some things you can do with DRDFLASH are mentioned here. Examine the files, and see how they line up with the stuff here. http://www.geocities.com/disk_operat...m/treasure.htm What I use, is an old DOS boot floppy I made in Win98, years ago. Paul |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
On Fri, 30 May 2008 23:41:29 -0700 (PDT), ealadi
wrote: My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? Thanks for any advice Ealadi If you don't have a floppy drive, do you know if your system can boot a USB flash thumbdrive? If it can, make one DOS bootable, not loading any memory managers/etc, then put the DOS flasher program and the bios image on and boot that to flash it. |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
On 31 Maj, 08:41, ealadi wrote:
My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? Thanks for any advice Ealadi Thanks a lot for cautions and good advice. This was all helpful. I borrowed my wife's usb-diskdrive and used a Dos-diskette. The operation seems to be succesful. Ealadi |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
On 31 Maj, 08:41, ealadi wrote:
My computer came with windows XP. I have since upgrade to Vista Ultimate. I have downloaded a bios update. The intruction tells me to boot into a dos command promt and upgrade the bios from there. I have tried to boot from several Windows installation CD - and press F8 - but I always end up with my Vista Screen - and I cannot upgrade the bios from Vista - right? Thanks for any advice Ealadi Thanks a lot to CBFalconer, Webwalker, Paul and Kony for caution, useful information and good advice. This was all helpful. I borrowed my wife's usb-diskdrive and used a Dos-diskette. The operation seems to be successful. Ealadi |
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How to upgrade bios from Windows Vista (32 bit)
Thanks a lot to CBFalconer, Webwalker, Paul and Kony for caution,
useful information and good advice. This was all helpful. I borrowed my wife's usb-diskdrive and used a Dos-diskette. The operation seems to be successful. Ealadi |
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