rgds I didn't mean anything bad by my statement. You didn't have to get defensive. :frown: Did you try checking in bios if your floppy is bootable? It can be turned off and on in the bios. That is what I would check first. Oh, by the way, when you upgrade...

to reply..they have the usual floppy instructions on their website....any help out there guys..or maybe Tom..?????. hi all...i hope someone knows for sure... how do i upgrade my bios in winXP..??? in previous windows i just put it on a bootable floppy restarted...

alt.sys.pc-clone.dell () You should upgrade your BIOS before you add new hardware and before you upgrade your operating system. Other than that, there is no need. Nonetheless, there are people who like to upgrade their BIOS regardless. Whenever you upgrade...

a floppy to use to flash a mobo BIOS, I ALWAYS format it first, doing a full format. Any bad spots, and the floppy goes in the trash. I probably have a 1000 floppys here, so one less won't matter. It's not worth the risk of a possible failed BIOS flash...

deciding to give it another go. I now want to upgrade my BIOS and don't want to risk doing it in XP (as I;m not sure about how to go about it) so decided to revert back to Win98 (I have the upgrade package) to upgrade the BIOS then bung XP back on. However!...

something faulty with your motherboard. Seeeing as you when you try to update your bios u receive a BSOD. How are you updating BIOS, with Floppy or with @bios. A while back (maybe 3 to 4 Months ago) their were several treads on problems with Gigabyte @bios...

Mr Bios 680 upgrade. Archived from groups: alt.sys.pc-clone.packardbell () I'm not sure how active this board is anymore, but my Mr Bios floppy disc containing the 680 bios has been damaged, I would be very very very grateful if anyone could sent me a...

blocker should have activated and then you can boot off of cd or floppy to reflash. The primary boot block is protected and not overwritten during flash. So make a flash cd or floppy and reflash. I tried new bios 3x its just plain bad. I told Biostar about...

bios. can anyone help i want to upgrade my motherboard bios, but my floppy drive is broken so i need another way to bypass himem and emm386 so that i can get to a prompt to run my bios upgrade software, i am currently running windowsME thanks lee. can anyone...

elses PC if you can, it's good to try that before doing an RMA (if it's necessary). Make sure if you update the BIOS: 1)backup current BIOS first. 2)don't use Windows utility, update from BIOS or floppy routine only. 3)triple check to make sure you have...