updating BIOS with windows 2000....impossible?

[htedrom]

I've got an asus a7v133 with an AMD Duron, running windows 2000 proffessional. I recently bought a AMD tbird 1.33ghz.

To install the chip, I need to first update my BIOS.

I downloaded the flash utility at asus.com (aflash.exe) and the driver file for my motherboard (asu4000.awd)

but to run the flash utility, I have to boot into DOS first.
This, as far as I have found, is impossible with windows 2000.

I've tryed everything, manually copying system files to a diskette with the BIOS files, even making a boot disk from a virus scanner that starts up in dos found on the win2k CD....everything I can think of, but still no show. Windows is on FAT32, so if I could only get a DOS prompt, everything would be solved.

PLEASE, if anyone has ANY ideas, repy to me.

thanks in advance.

 

[Guest]

Win 2K can make startup disks can't it? just make a startup disk, and just go int DOS prompt when it asks instead of installing windows. Once there, pop in the utility disk and have at it.

 

[Toejam31]

Did you change the device boot order in the BIOS to the A: drive before attempting to start the computer with the boot disk?

Start the computer with a Win9x or a DOS <A HREF="http://www.drd.dyndns.org/index2.html" target="_new">boot disk</A>, and then access the flash utility on a second floppy disk from the DOS prompt. This will allow you to save the older BIOS on the second floppy during the procedure ... something that should <i>always</i> be done when flashing to a newer version.

I have a feeling that you may not have thoroughly read the instructions on how to flash the BIOS which are posted on the Asus website. Please take a moment to review them ... a bad flash is no laughing matter.

<A HREF="http://www.asus.com/inside/flash_nb.htm" target="_new">How to Flash BIOS??</A>

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[htedrom]

yep, I read the asus docs buried in their horrible site.

and yes, I'm booting off the floppy

I'll check out the link, see if it works
thanks for givin it a go either way

 

[htedrom]

if it IS possible to make a start up disk on wind2k,
microsoft is making it beyond difficult to find such a function.

 

[zwaarst]

this is what the windows 2000 help is saying.

To create setup disks

Insert a blank, formatted, 3.5-inch, 1.44-MB disk into the floppy disk drive.
Insert the Windows 2000 CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
Click Start, and then click Run.
In the Open box, type d:\bootdisk\makeboot a: (where d: is the drive letter assigned to your CD-ROM drive), and then click OK.
Follow the screen prompts.

I didn't try it my self so i can't say it will work

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[htedrom]

I tried that one already -

the disk only boots windows, I can't see a way to get to a dos prompt

 

[Pettytheft]

<A HREF="http://www.bootdisk.com/" target="_new">BootDisk.com</A>

Real simple if you experience more problems after this then there is some other error your overlooking or perhaps a problem with your system...

Good Luck!

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