How to Boot from USB Flash Drive

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Hello,

Recently built a system having the following:

P67A-GD65 MB
I5
Corsair Vengeance 8GB
Win XP

All is good except I need to update the BIOS. There is a MB LED flashing indicating a primary boot failure. Never done this but have looked around to determine the BIOS flash process. I have created a bootable USB flash pen drive having both the system files and files to initiate the bios flash.

I have gone in to my BIOS to change the boot priority. I have tried to boot 3 times so far where the device in the BIOS (for 1st boot) was 1st attempt - USB DVD/CD, 2nd attempt - USB Floppy, and 3rd attempt - USB Hard drive. On all 3 boot attempts my system boots off the hard drive normally going in to Windows.

Any ideas why?

BTW - I was using the MSI Live Update before going through this process. There is a ClickBIOS file it tells me to download, yet when I download and install it an error message comes up saying this file is not needed for my MB.

Thank you

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Hi P07,

Later I went back in to my BIOS and chose a maybe two other boot options (other than the obvious HD or CDR, etc. options). There was a 3-letter acronym that I chose to boot from (i am away from my system so cannot confirm it); the system booted in to DOS and there was this weird mapping diagram displayed. I tried to mess with it but it did not work, and i typed EXIT to get out. After doing this the C:\ came up and i followed the process below to re-flash the BIOS.

But before this I went to youtube to learn how to make the bootable flash drive. There are several. This link was the basic process I followed, though this has more to do with how to flash the bios. It showed me how to get the correct files needed to update the BIOS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8IBbrYq61E

After more snooping around, this time elsewhere on line found this tool to create the bootable USB drive:

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

Then downloaded the system files (win98boot.zip) - need command.com, io.sys, msdos.sys - from here :

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=196

Combined two BIOS files with the 3 system files on a clean USB drive. Followed the process in the 1st URL from YT above.

Life is good again,

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