Boot up to flash BIOS

[Joe 1]

I am trying to find out if a floppy formatted under
Windows XP as a system disk will actually work on a
restart. I have formatted a disk with new BIOS files,
reset boot order in BIOS but my floppy info is ignored and
the PC loads XP. This occurs even if I set the floppy as
the only boot source. Will autoexec.bat actually work as
XP loads when there is no DOS available?

 

[Carey Frisch [MVP]]

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Microsoft MVP
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|I am trying to find out if a floppy formatted under
| Windows XP as a system disk will actually work on a
| restart. I have formatted a disk with new BIOS files,
| reset boot order in BIOS but my floppy info is ignored and
| the PC loads XP. This occurs even if I set the floppy as
| the only boot source. Will autoexec.bat actually work as
| XP loads when there is no DOS available?

 

[Phil]

If your trying to update your bios, I suggest you read the directions again.
Usually you boot to a win9x floppy boot disk, then put a separate floppy in
with the bios upgrade files and run the file / program that the instructions
say to run. It then updates the bios.

 

[Ken Blake]

In

I am trying to find out if a floppy formatted under
Windows XP as a system disk will actually work on a
restart.

Yes.


I have formatted a disk with new BIOS files,
reset boot order in BIOS but my floppy info is ignored and
the PC loads XP. This occurs even if I set the floppy as
the only boot source.

Something is wrong here. What you describe can't be the case.
When you went into the BIOS and changed the boot order, did you
save the changes you made before exiting?

 

[Crusty \Old B@stard\]

You do not know what you did in the bios. It isn't correct, whatever it was.
If you did what you say you did, there is NO WAY that Windows XP would boot
from the hard drive.

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Regards:

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

 

[CS]

I am trying to find out if a floppy formatted under
Windows XP as a system disk will actually work on a
restart. I have formatted a disk with new BIOS files,
reset boot order in BIOS but my floppy info is ignored and
the PC loads XP. This occurs even if I set the floppy as
the only boot source. Will autoexec.bat actually work as
XP loads when there is no DOS available?

Creating a floppy disk under Windows XP and selecting bootable, will
indeed work to boot the machine. As for loading the flash BIOS
executable program on it, follow your BIOS maker's directions.

If the floppy you created won't boot your machine, you either haven't
correctly set the boot priority in CMOS setup or you didn't create a
bootable floppy.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I am trying to find out if a floppy formatted under
Windows XP as a system disk will actually work on a
restart. I have formatted a disk with new BIOS files,
reset boot order in BIOS but my floppy info is ignored and
the PC loads XP.

When you format the floppy (from a r-click on the drive in My Computer)
you need to check 'MSDOS Startup disk'. That will make it bootable and
include the minimal files needed to run a program; add your flash
program and its data file.

When you boot and run the flash program make sure you start by backing
up the present BIOS to the floppy, and if then there is any sign that
the flash did not fully succeed, immediately run it again to restore the
backup *DO NOT* reboot until this is done

 

[Joe 1]

Sorry for the delay in answering. My IE doesn't display
the additional responses to questions for some reason. Re
the boot problem: I do save the changes when exiting bios
changes but the disk info is ignored. The PC does light
the floopy drive light but doesn't seem to read the disk.
I put data on and read from this disk under XP so it is a
good disk. I even went out and bought a 10 pack of new
floppies and made two disks but neither works.

 

[Joe 1]

I think I will try your solution, I have tried so many
times and I know I have set up the boot sequence
correctly. I do not understand why the disk doesn't work
as it has the hidden system files, etc. I will post a
reply when this is done. Thank you.

 

[Joe 1]

That didn't work. There must be something else controlling
the order or status of the storage devices. I will eat the
$50.00 and forget the upgrade. Thanks